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WHITE PAPERS

White papers provide firms with a way to inform and educate the market about new technologies and services. The white papers describe a new technology, explain why it is important, and present the company that sponsors the paper as a leader in the product domain.

IBM White Paper: 1:1 Computing in K-12 Education

School districts across the U.S. have embarked on large-scale 1:1 initiatives to equip each student with a mobile computing device. In fact, 1:1 computing has become an educational best practice that—along with professional development for teachers, project-based learning methods, and student-centered learning—can improve the effectiveness of education on all levels: students, teachers, and administrators. Key goals of 1:1 computing programs include: raising student performance, enriching the learning environment, increasing teachers’ efficiency in the classroom, extending the learning environment beyond a school’s walls, better connecting schools to families and communities, and providing students with the necessary skills to succeed in the 21st century workplace. (Download complete white paper)

IBM White Paper: The Power of Open Source and the Open Approach in K12

Open source technologies are part of a movement profoundly revolutionizing the way technology is done, known as the open approach. The open approach encompasses open source, open standards, and open architecture. This movement promises to transform technology delivery in K12 education, and to free up resources and funds for a stronger focus on services and applications that support educational objectives. (Download complete white paper)

The District Data Analyzer: A Low-Cost, High-Impact Alternative to a Data Warehouse from Excelsior Software

Educators understand the importance of data-based decision making as they struggle to meet the challenges of increased accountability. But collecting, accessing, and analyzing data is often a frustrating and time-consuming experience. While some states and districts have developed data warehouses as vehicles to collect, store, and analyze data, others have concluded that warehouses are too expensive and complicated to be a viable option. As a result, many teachers and administrators don’t analyze data — and accountability is more difficult to achieve. (Download complete white paper)

Delivering Effective Accountability: Anatomy of the Process

Accountability is a key force driving improvement efforts in schools, districts, and state education agencies. Although “accountability” is often used to refer to test results, it is actually a complex combination of five core processes, information systems, and organizational competence to create instructional improvement. (Download complete white paper)

Managed Internet Network Services: Making the Case for Schools

Managed Internet Network Services: Making the Case for Schools examines the value and benefits of having one company to plan, develop, and operate broadly distributed networks for large school systems or state education agencies. Networks have become the platform for the delivery of education and the operation of management and instructional systems. Managed Internet service is a means of ensuring that networks have adequate capacity, are resistant to intruders, and rarely, if ever, stop functioning. (Download complete white paper)

 
 
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