Grantoo gives students a chance to win grants for playing games online --brands can sponsor tournaments by providing cash that will go towards educational grants or donations to charities for students who win.
It has announced Amazon Inspire, an open education resources (OER) platform for teachers to source free learning materials for students from kindergarten to twelfth grade, starting first as a beta in the U.S.
The company plans to spur the development of apps that will help improve the state of education, and is planning an education-centric "hackathon" contest in June to find the smartest apps. The idea is to bring the Internet, video, social media, and the concept of "gamification" to the learning proce
The popularity of Apple's online educational catalog, iTunes U, has tripled over the past two-and-a-half years - if the number of downloads is any indication.
Apple announced Thursday that more than 1 billion items have been downloaded from the catalog, up from 300,000 in August 2010. The service was launched in mid-2007 and got a dedicated app at the beginning of last year.