Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Global IT giants work to bring 21st-century teaching to schools

Cisco, Intel and Microsoft have banded together to develop new assessment approaches, methods and technologies for measuring the success of 21st-century teaching and learning in classrooms around the world.
The assessment research and development (R&D) project spearheaded by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft has received the support of major international assessment organisations.
Specifically, OECD [Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development] and the International Association of the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) have expressed interest in using the evidence-based and verifiable output of the 21st-century skills assessment to inform the development of the next versions of PISA and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), their respective international benchmarks. Read More

Courtesy: Silicon Republic

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