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Educational organizations and companies offer programs, such as camps, awards, and contests that, using Adobe products, further promote 21st century learning in education.
A division of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, The Art Institute Online has formed an educational alliance with Adobe Systems, to develop and market certificate programs as part of The Art Institute Online Center for Professional Development (CPD). The CPD offers intensive, accelerated modules in web design certificate programs in an online format that are specifically designed around targeted professional areas. Two programs are currently offered: Introduction to Web Design and Website Development.
Adobe Youth Voices is designed to help underserved middle- and high-school aged youth develop critical skills necessary to become active and engaged members of their communities. Demonstrating the power of technology to engage middle- and high-school-age youth, Adobe Youth Voices provides breakthrough learning experiences using video, multimedia, digital art, web, animation, and audio tools that enable youth to explore and comment on their world.
Since 1997, Cybercamps has been offering fun, interactive summer technology education programs for girls and boys ages 7–16 at university campuses across the U.S. Courses include Web Design, Digital Media, Game Design, 3D Animation, Programming, and Robotics.
The newest division of Discovery Communications, Discovery Education is the leading provider of digital-video-based broadband educational content. From its new Cosmeo homework-help tool to school services and products reaching 35 million students in 90,000 schools around the world, Discovery Education's mission is to provide effective digital resources to educators, students, and families. By helping learners embrace and use new educational technologies, Discovery Education strives to improve student achievement and academic performance. Discovery Education helps educators around the world harness the power of broadband and media to connect their students to a world of learning.
iD Tech Camps teaches advanced technology to students ages 8–17 at more than 30 of the nation's best university campuses, including Stanford University, Pepperdine, MIT, and University of Texas at Austin. Students learn Digital Video & Movie Production, Web Design & Graphic Arts, and Multimedia & Game Creation. Adobe and iD have been working together for the past three seasons, encouraging and mentoring the digital generation.
Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson is the global leader in educational publishing, providing scientifically research-based print and digital programs to help students learn at their own pace, in their own way. Pearson Education has trusted and respected programs in educational and professional publishing, and offers a comprehensive range of educational programs, in all subjects, for every age and level of student, from preK-12 through higher education and on into professional life.
Businesses and brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cumminngs, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. Pearson's other primary operations include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.
Technology & Learning (www.techLEARNING.com), published by NewBay Media LLC, is the leading publication in the K-12 educational technology market. In 2006, Technology & Learning was recognized for its commitment to excellence, receiving several of the industry's top media accolades, including an ASBPE Award (Silver) for Best How-To Article, three Maggie Finalist awards, including Best Computer Magazine/Trade, and a Web Marketing Association WebAward Education Standard of Excellence for techLEARNING.com.
Schools need the latest technology to give students the digital communication skills needed to thrive in the 21st century. Computers through our technology hardware partners provide faculty and students at schools, districts and universities with the latest tools at their fingertips. See what faculty and students can do with the latest software from Adobe.
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and will enter the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 34 on the Fortune 500. For more information, visit www.dell.com.
HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges, and realize their possibilities, aspirations and dreams. We apply new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology, continuously improving the way our customers live and work.
The Intel® Education Initiative is Intel's sustained commitment to improve teaching and learning through the effective use of technology, and to advance math, science, and engineering education and research. Intel invests approximately USD 100 million per year in education programs in more than 50 countries.
Lenovo is an innovative, international technology company formed as a result of the acquisition by the Lenovo Group of the IBM Personal Computing Division. As a global leader in the PC market, Lenovo develops, manufactures and markets cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products and value-added professional services that provide customers around the world with smarter ways to be productive and competitive.
Olympus is a precision technology leader, creating innovative opto-digital solutions in healthcare, life science and consumer electronics products. Olympus works collaboratively with its customers and its affiliates worldwide to leverage R&D investment in precision technology and manufacturing processes across diverse business lines.
Wacom Technology Corporation is headquartered in Vancouver, WA and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wacom Company, Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan (TSE: 6727).
In 1989, Wacom revolutionized the nature of digital creativity when it introduced the world's first cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen. Wacom pen tablets are now owned by millions of photographers, designers, artists, and other professionals worldwide.
Adobe partners with leading training organizations and companies to help teachers and staff better prepare students for life beyond the classroom.
American Graphics Institute is an Adobe Certified Training Provider and a Quark Authorized Training Center. Macromedia Certified Professionals instruct AGI's Macromedia courses. AGI has been providing training services, professional development and consulting for more than ten years. We've trained more than 10,000 people and delivered consulting and training services to more than 1,000 organizations and companies.
The Digital Media AcademyTM (DMA) is a nationally-recognized organization offering hands-on learning experiences in a broad range of digital media technologies. DMA’s programs cater to K-20 educators, teens, and adult-learners. Founded in 2001 by a group from Stanford University, DMA is best known for its premier summer programs hosted at prestigious destination campuses, such as Stanford University and the University of Texas along with locations in South Carolina and San Diego. In addition to its summer programs, DMA provides on-site training to schools and companies throughout the year and has recently released a DMA Book Series through CMP Books.
lynda.com is an award-winning provider of educational materials, including Hands-On Training™ instructional books, the Online Training Library®, CD- and DVD-based video training, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists.
Total Training, Inc. is a pioneer in innovative online and DVD-based training for leading creative design, digital video, and office productivity software programs.
T3 workshops provide Adobe software training to K-12 educators in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California, and Puget Sound, Washington. These workshops provide teachers with the opportunity to learn how to incorporate digital applications into the classroom across a range of curricular activities, using a variety of Adobe products. Designed around real classroom projects and offered for free or a nominal administrative charge, teachers are given the time and support they need to become proficient at using digital media in their own classrooms. T3, launched in June 2006, is the second phase of the Adobe Teach the Teacher program, which began in 2002.
Students and instructors need to be more than familiar users of digital communications technology to be successful. Certification on Adobe products provides the added credential for instructors as well as opens new opportunities for students in the 21st century.
Certiport is the world leader in standards-based certification solutions that enable personal and professional advancement through globally portable credentials. They provide certification and services to help individuals to achieve more, distinguish themselves, and advance in today's academic and professional environments.
SQA is an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB) sponsored by the Scottish Executive Education Department. It is the national body in Scotland responsible for the development, accreditation, assessment and certification of qualifications other than degrees.
The overall aim of the SQA is to manage the qualifications system below degree level to allow students to fulfil their potential to participate in the economy, society and communities of Scotland.
Adobe’s partners with leading associations to help grow awareness and lead the way for implementing technology in education, making sure that Adobe tools are the industry standard for digital communication skills.
This mission statement captures AACC's commitment to advance the recognition of the role of community colleges in serving society today. By providing advocacy, leadership and service for community colleges, the Association will play a key role in assisting the nation as it passes from the industrial era of the 20 century to the new knowledge-based society of the 21st century.
Recognizing a remarkable convergence of mission and goals, the members of CAUSE and Educom voted to create a new consolidated association, EDUCAUSE, to galvanize thought and action at the intersection of higher education and information technology.
Adobe is proud to be a Silver partner, supporting EDUCAUSE and its mission of transforming education through information technologies.
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy, and leadership for innovation. A nonprofit membership organization, ISTE provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK–12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), ISTE represents more than 85,000 professionals worldwide. We support our members with information, networking opportunities, and guidance as they face the challenge of transforming education. ISTE® is the registered trademark of International Society for Technology in Education.
The League for Innovation in the Community College, as a nonprofit educational consortium of resourceful community colleges, stimulates experimentation and innovation in all areas of community college development and serves as a catalyst, project incubator, and experimental laboratory for all community colleges.
MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.
Since 1978, the National Institute for Staff & Organizational Development (NISOD) has been dedicated to the professional development of faculty, administrators, and staff; and to the continued improvement of teaching and learning, with the ultimate goal of student success.
More than 700 community colleges around the world are NISOD-members, including almost every large community college district, the majority of urban and technical colleges in the United States and Canada, and more than 200 small, rural colleges around the world.
NISOD is the outreach vehicle and service arm to the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP). The CCLP, at the University of Texas at Austin, is a doctoral-level program training community college presidents, vice presidents, and deans for 60 years. More than 15 percent of the nation's presidents, vice presidents, and deans, as well as a healthy proportion of other college administrators, are UT-CCLP graduates.
New Media Centers is a non-profit consortium devoted to enhancing teaching and learning through the use of new media. Through partnership of higher education institutions and innovative companies, participating organizations exchange knowledge, products, technology and support. Founded in 1993, New Media Centers has grown to more than 100 institutions in the U.S. and around the world.
The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.
NMC member institutions are found in almost every state in the United States, across Canada, and in Europe, Asia and Australia. Among the membership are an elite list of the most highly regarded colleges and universities in the world, as well as a growing list of innovative museums, research centers, foundations, and forward-thinking companies.
The consortium serves as a catalyst for the development of new applications of technology to support learning and creative expression, and sponsors programs and activities designed to stimulate innovation, encourage collaboration, and recognize excellence among its member institutions. Through its many projects, its comprehensive website, and its series of international conferences, the NMC stimulates dialog and understanding through the exploration of promising ideas, technologies, and applications.
Founded in the fall of 2001, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principal association representing the state directors for educational technology. SETDA’s goal is to improve student achievement through technology.
SETDA’s mission is guided by three key principles:
WCET - the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications - is a membership-supported organization open to providers and users of educational technologies. Our mission is to promote and advance the effective use of technology in higher education. WCET actualizes this mission through the cooperative efforts of its member network.
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