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In 2012, adaptive learning became one of the most important and exciting trends in education technology, and in that year McGraw-Hill Education cemented its status as the adaptive learning leader, celebrating a number of milestones for McGraw-Hill LearnSmart™ – the company’s industry-leading adaptive study tool – as it helped colleges and instructors improve student performance. As part of this year of achievement in adaptive learning, McGraw-Hill Education today announced at the 2012 EDUCAUSE conference in Denver that LearnSmart has surpassed one million student users since the product launched in fall 2009.

ExamSoft Worldwide, Inc., a technology leader that helps schools more efficiently create and administer direct assessments, and generate actionable data to measure and improve individual student learning outcomes, today announced the launch of its Exam Intelligence (E.I.) solutions at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference in Denver.

Pearson today announced Project Blue Sky, a cloud-based, content service that provides instructors with easy access to Open Educational Resources (OER). Pearson is partnering with Silicon Valley non-profit Gooru, a search engine for learning materials, and will leverage Gooru’s powerful search capabilities to build applications that seamlessly integrate high-quality learning resources on the web, including OER, with instructor-created and Pearson content.

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Solano Community College, serving 11,000 students annually, has partnered with Pearson to launch an integrated blended learning program designed to increase access to course content and reduce costs to students.

With college students’ insatiable appetite for technology, and their growing dependence on mobile devices for instant information, socializing, and academic course materials, there is a fast-growing demand to keep mobile devices charged up on the go, especially on campus. goCharge, the nation’s leading provider of mobile device charging stations with built-in charging chords to accommodate nearly all models of cell phones, smart phones, tablets and music players, is smartly addressing this need. The company has installed hundreds of goCharge stations in high-traffic venues, including a vast array of college campuses across the United States.