In February this year, we reported the news that Liverpool Community College (LCC) had bought 600 Lenovo Windows 8 Tablets for distribution to teaching staff.

The following is an interesting case study by the Regional Support Centre Scotland and it shows how the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle is helping the Dundee College to manage and promote learning while creating online communities for their students.

According to Ollie Bray, author of the ebook BYOD in education, there are three main reasons why you may decide to develop BYOD within your school or education institution:

Student familiarity
If you own your device it is very likely that you will know how it works and what it can do. In short, this means that, from a learning perspective, you lose less time getting students to understand and wrestle with the hardware and gain more time on focused learning. 

On March 5th 2013, Electronic Arts released the highly-anticipated SimCity for Windows PCs everywhere.  SimCity is an interactive and immersive simulation where you are the mayor of a virtual city with people known as Sims that just want to be happy. As mayor you take the heat or the credit for how your city fares under your leadership and decision-making. It is just a game…or is it?

Great Windows 8 roundtable discussion featuring a range of deployment experts from across the IT community.

Get valuable tips for deploying Windows 8 in the enterprise and take a walk through the latest Windows 8 devices. The insight from Paul Fisher from Seton Hall University around how Windows 8 is helping them to realise their 1:1 computing goals is particularly compelling.

Great video from the team at University of West London talking about their 2012 UCISA-Eduserv Award for Excellence winning Office 365 Education project. The University set out to harness the powerful collaboration capabilities within Office 365 Education to create a personalised, interactive and social platform to support the institution’s mission to raise aspiration through the pursuit of excellence. They were also passionate, as part of the project, to allow students to combine social learning with academic study. The following video gives a comprehensive overview of the project, combined with feedback from the students, themselves.