Which ed-tech products and services do our readers like best? Here are their top 40 choices for the 2013-14 school year.
This past spring, we asked readers to give us their top picks for school hardware, software, websites, and services. Nearly 700 readers responded via one of our three websites: eSchoolNews.com, eCampusNews.com, and eClassroomNews.com.
In nominating their favorite products, we asked readers to tell us how they’re using these products to improve teaching, learning, or school administration—and to what effect. We then chose the 40 best responses, which appear alphabetically by product name.
The result is a list of ed-tech products and services that have proven to be effective. We hope you’ll find this information useful as you consider how technology can help transform education on your own campus.
Here’s a quick table of contents to help you navigate:
Higher-education winners
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Canvas (Instructure)
Enterasys Network Access Control (Enterasys)
Google+ Hangouts (Google)
Hobsons Retain (Hobsons)
Interactive Campus Map (NuCloud)
Office 365 for Education (Microsoft)
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Remote Proctor (Software Secure)
Student Lingo (Innovative Educators)
SymbalooEDU
Zinch (Chegg)
K-12 winners
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Alert Solutions
BiteSlide
Camtasia Studio (TechSmith)
Centricity2 (Schoolwires)
Collaborate (Blackboard)
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CrashPlan PROe (Code 42 Software)
Digital Passport (Common Sense Media)
Discovery Education Techbook (Discovery Education)
eTrition (Harris School Solutions)
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Futaba (INKids)
Gizmos (ExploreLearning)
GoClaim (Go Solutions Group)
Google Chromebooks
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In2Books (ePals)
InfuseLearning
Insight 360 (eInstruction)
Lexia Reading (Lexia Learning)
Luna Interactive Projection Camera (Learning Resources)
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My Big Campus (Lightspeed Systems)
MyLearningPlan
Observe4Success
ParentSquare
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SAFARI Montage
SAM Animation (iCreate to Educate)
SCORE21 (TE21)
SNAP Health Center (Professional Software for Nurses Inc.)
TalentEd (Netchemia)
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Tales2Go
TreeRing Yearbooks (TreeRing)
WalkKits (The Walking Classroom)
Honorable Mentions
- Mantra Health Announces New Solutions for Campus Mental Health Crisis, Supported by Series A Extension Funding - March 31, 2023
- Vernier Science Education Updates Vernier Graphical Analysis® Pro to Further Meet the Needs of Educators and Students - March 29, 2023
- TimelyMD Becomes TimelyCare, Evolving to Meet Ever-Changing Student Needs - March 28, 2023