Heller Report on Educational Technology Markets articles from August 1 2000

Heller Report on Educational Technology Markets archives from August 1 2000

NetSchools, HP partner to deliver total education solution.
August 1, 2000... NetSchools (Atlanta, GA) and Hewlett-Packard Company (HP; Palo Alto, CA) have announced a strategic partnership. HP will be providing hardware and support services for the NetSchools Constellation computer-based teaching and learning solution....

Edison, poised for growth, cites technology as an essential component.
August 1, 2000... Edison Schools, Inc. (New York, NY) is the country's largest for profit school management company, managing 79 schools serving more than 38,000 students during the 1999-00 school year. Technology is one of the Ten Fundamentals of the Edison...

Digital TV offers new opportunities.
August 1, 2000... Americas television broadcasters are in the midst of making the transition to digital technology. Once the conversion is completed, television stations will have greatly enhanced capabilities, becoming essentially a wireless broadband digital...

PBS stations explore revenue-generating potential of DTV service.
August 1, 2000... The Public Broadcasting Stations in 28 major markets reaching nearly 50 percent of U.S. television households have formed the CSRG Digital LLC to explore the revenue opportunities presented by the digital television spectrum they control....

Sylvan and Aether partner to develop a mobile computing solution.
August 1, 2000... Interest in wireless solutions for the education market continues to grow. Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc. (Baltimore, MD) and Aether Systems, Inc. (Owings Mills, MD) have partnered to launch MindSurf. MindSurf's mission will be to create an...

Canadian schools' IT spending up.
August 1, 2000... A recent study by Evans Research Corp. (ERC; Toronto, ONT) indicates that technology spending by Canadian school boards increased dramatically in 1999. IT spending for the 1999-00 school year reached CAN$810.2 million (US$552.5M), up by nearly...

EdNET 2000 expands its Entrepreneurs Forum program.
August 1, 2000... A number of new features have been added to EdNET 2000, giving attendees increased opportunities to tell their organization's story and find the resources they need to grow and succeed. The Entrepreneurs' Forum program was launched in 1999...

Plato Learning Inc.
August 1, 2000... PLATO Learning, Inc. (Bloomington, MN) announced the acquisition of CyberEd, Inc. (Paradise, CA) for $4.8 million in cash. CyberEd a leading publisher of interactive, multimedia courseware for high school and college level science, sells its...

Tribune Company.
August 1, 2000... Tribune Company (Chicago, IL) has agreed to sell its supplementary education unit, Tribune Education, to McGraw-Hill Companies (New York, NY) for approximately $635 million in cash. McGraw-Hill Education, the companies educational publishing...

Tom Ridge.
August 1, 2000... Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge launched CyberStart, an initiative to put computers in Pennsylvania's day-care centers and link preschoolers to powerful educational material via the Internet. The state has committed $1.6 million to CyberStart in...

Glassbook, Inc.
August 1, 2000... South-Western (Cincinnati, OH) has teamed with Glassbook, Inc. (Waltham, MA), a leading software developer for e-book technology, to provide students with a new modular electronic study tool called e-Chapters for purchase directly online....

Educational Video Conferencing, Inc.
August 1, 2000... Educational Video Conferencing, Inc. (Yonkers, NY) plans to broaden the distribution of its two-way interactive video conferencing system in the elementary and high school markets. The company provides an interactive, computer-based,...

The Software & Information Industry Association.
August 1, 2000... The Software & Information Industry Association (SHA; Washington, DC) has released Building the Net: Trends Report 2000, an online report analyzing six key trends shaping the digital economy. The report features as one of its six trends...

Multimedia K.I.D., Inc.
August 1, 2000... Multimedia K.I.D., Inc. (Vancouver, WA) announced an agreement with Oswal Infosys, Ltd. (Ludhiana, India) to form a joint technological venture company. Under the agreement, Oswal Multimedia K.I.D. will open Multimedia K.I.D.-equipped learning...

Pearson Education.
August 1, 2000... Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has entered a strategic partnership with The New Jersey Virtual Community College Consortia (NJVCCC) which formally establishes Pearson Education as the NJVCCC's preferred vendor of course content. New...

Tengtu International Corp.
August 1, 2000... Tengtu International Corp. (Burnaby, BC) received official certification from the Evaluation Committee of the Beijing Science and Technology Commission for its "Total Solution" package for a General Elementary/Secondary School Network...

FT Knowledge.
August 1, 2000... FT Knowledge (New York, NY) will acquire The Forum Corporation (Boston, MA), a leading U.S.-based workplace learning company, for $90 million. FT Knowledge is Pearson plc's business education and management development operation. The merger...

The Texas Education Agency.
August 1, 2000... The Texas Education Agency (TEA; Austin, TX) has selected Convergent Media Systems (Atlanta, GA) as the preferred vendor to transition the T-STAR education network to more flexible compressed digital video technologies. This will enable content...

T.H.E. Institute.
August 1, 2000... T.H.E. Institute (Tustin, CA), the professional development division of T.H.E. Journal, and Knowvation, Inc. (San Jose, CA; see ETM, June 1999), a leading educational technology professional development provider are joining forces to expand...