ED Teams With Microsoft To Boost Teachers' Classroom Technology Proficiency

The T.H.E. Journal (11/11, Meyer) reports on a collaborative effort between Microsoft, ED, the British Council, and the Smithsonian Institution on "projects designed to help prepare educators to use educational technology in the classroom. The announcement was made at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum 2011, a program for improving teaching and learning through the effective use of technology in the classroom. Microsoft will collaborate with the US Department of Education on the government's TEACH campaign to recruit new teachers." The piece notes that Microsoft is taking over the TEACH website, which will be re-launched at teach.org.