The Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 SDK was designed to provide the tools and content necessary to write parallel applications for the Windows HPC Server 2008 platform.

How to take advantage of stimulus funds and build a sustainable future for your school.

Microsoft Unified Communications technologies use the power of software to help streamline communications between people and organizations, overcoming barriers related to medium, platform, device, or location.

This case study of an eScience collaboration is a product of research management for education. Learn how cloud computing enabled the team to embed the parallel version of an existing FORTAN program in a cloud-based web application to improve usability.

Learn how to unlock business insights from all your structured and unstructured data, including large volumes of data not previously activated, with Microsoft’s Big Data solution.

Find out how Microsoft Live@edu can help provide better services to your school while reducing costs at the same time.

Research has always been a key pillar among Higher Education Institutions. This session focuses on some of the main assets Microsoft provides for university researchers and projects and initiatives it is developing with universities in the region.

This session explores cloud computing to identify the common requirements for evaluating solutions and the considerations that exist for our higher education customers.

This session explores the new wave of technology-enabled collaboration sweeping across education and the opportunities they present for institutions.

Rob Howard is Senior Program Manager on the SharePoint product team. He has a passion for collaborative applications because they enhance individual and organizational productivity.

Jim Ptaszynski joined Microsoft in October 1995, having spent the past 16 years in higher education. For the six years prior to Microsoft, he was the associate dean at the Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University.

Harold Javid is director of the Microsoft Research Connections regional programs for North America, Latin America and Australia/New Zealand.

Jaime Puente is the Director of Microsoft Research Connections responsible for Microsoft Research's engagements in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Gustavo is the Microsoft Higher Education Solutions Manager for Latin America & the Caribbean - dedicated to empower all people to realize their social and economic potential by providing access to quality educational experiences through technology.

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Download this helpful teacher’s guide of tips and tricks for Microsoft Mathematics 4.0.

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Access information about training, software available to your member school, and publications you can use in the classroom.

Learn about the Up-to-Date (UTD) discount through an open value subscription agreement for Education Solutions (OVS-ES).

Learn how to use Office SharePoint Server 2007 to facilitate collaboration, provide content management features, implement business processes, and supply access to information that is essential to organizational goals and processes.

Capability examples of the Microsoft Education Analytics Platform, the software architecture on which SIGMA is based, highlighting solutions offered by technology and subject-matter expert partners to improve school and student performance.

How can economic stimulus funds improve the education of your students.

Using Microsoft Dynamics to support school districts who have specialized requirements to support district financial, procurement, and human resource operations.

Microsoft Partners in Learning works with governments and education leaders around the world to deliver a portfolio of professional development, curricula, tools, and resources designed to advance 21st century teaching, learning, and digital inclusion.

Cloud computing white paper that outlines benefits of working in the cloud for educational institutions.

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This paper provides high-level insight into how cloud computing security considerations can be addressed using Microsoft technology to build a private cloud.

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The School Enrollment makes it easy for you to license all of your computers, whether in a single school or throughout the entire district, with the simplicity of counting computers just once per year. Learn about management and deployment information.

The Open License Academic agreement provides an easy way to acquire and administer five or more copies of software and receive license confirmations quickly and conveniently.

Read about benefits and details of the EES - an easy, cost-effective offer that provides qualified academic customers a simplified way to acquire Microsoft software and services under a single subscription agreement.

Select Plus for Academic offers a non-expiring agreement and the flexibility to acquire licenses as needed.

Microsoft Mathematics Add-in for Word and OneNote makes it easy to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, calculate numerical results, solve equations or inequalities, and simplify algebraic expressions in your Word documents and OneNote notebooks.

Learn more about Partners in Learning for Schools - a program offered by Microsoft that engages directly with school leaders to drive system-level changes in their own environment.

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Create short subject movies for your classes and lectures to engage your students using Windows Live Movie Maker.

Read how Cisco, Intel and Microsoft partnership provides guidance to Policy Makers to teach 21st century skills and build a culture of entrepreneurship.

Read the results from Accenture’s High Performance IT research (log-in required).

Access a summary report of the Innovative Teachers Forum held in July 2005.

Access a summary report of the Innovative Teachers Forum held in November 2006.

Access a special supplement to the Innovative Teachers Forum 2007.

Access a summary report of the Innovative Teachers Forum held in November 2008.

Access fast facts about the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum; a worldwide platform sponsored by Microsoft partners.

This report summarizes findings and next steps identified at a consultative two-day meeting of 30 experts from more than 10 countries convened by UNESCO and Microsoft in November 2011.

To provide school leaders with skills necessary to lead change, Microsoft offers professional development through recorded seminars given by education experts from around the world.

This report describes results from the 2-year evaluation of the pilot Innovative Schools Program.

Linda Shear of SRI International the presented ITL research report at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), March 1-5, 2010 in Chicago.

The peer coaching and mentoring program is designed to help schools implement a professional development model that can enhance standards-based instruction by assisting teachers to offer students engaging, technology rich, learning activities.

Teacher effectiveness is the single most important factor in determining student success. Learn how Microsoft partners with governments and agencies to develop higher quality teachers, measure their success, and boost students’ readiness for the future.

Research around the globe confirms that quality teachers are a critical requirement for a high-quality education system. Learn how Microsoft is helping address issues that stand in the way of high-quality educators and ICT integration in teaching.

Learn how Microsoft and our partners are delivering solutions and programs around the world designed to enhance job skills and grow the next generation of businesses - both for young people in school and for those who are already in the workforce.

Learn how Microsoft creates and deploys accessible technology to transform education, enable jobs and opportunities, and foster local innovation, all in an effort to raise living standards across the globe.

Learn how Microsoft is working with governments to help build the next generation of scientists and researchers with STEM education - providing them with new ways to collect, analyze, and share data that will transform global challenges.

Learn how focused e-science policy can improve the knowledge, decision-making, and actions related to the systemic issues of an increasingly populated and resource-hungry global society.

Discover the World Economic Forum Manifesto for unlocking human potential and investing in Europe’s future.

Read how unlocking entrepreneurial capabilities will help meet the global challenges of the 21st century.

Learn more about innovative teaching and how it relates to 21st century learning outcomes.

Read the latest project update report with news from ACT21S team members around the world.

UNESCO in partnership with industry leaders and global subject experts, has created an international benchmark which sets out the competencies required to teach effectively with ICT.

Overview presentation made by SRI's Tori Gorges at the American Evaluation Association's 2009 annual conference in Orlando, Florida.

This document covers some helpful Microsoft Office 2007 tips and tricks for teachers.

Learn more about the Microsoft Innovative Teaching and Learning Research program.

Access a paper that describes the design of Microsoft Innovative Teaching and Learning Research; a multi-year, global research program.

Access an overview of the Microsoft Innovative Teaching and Learning Research multi-year global research program.

Learn how Microsoft can help policymakers and school leaders anticipate trends that create opportunities for strategic transformation, develop plans to address those opportunities, and implement strategies to achieve lasting, positive change.

Learn about the Microsoft approach to strategic planning for education which begins with building a common vision for a 21st-century education, and then works through key stakeholder concerns and approaches to drive scalable innovation in efficient ways.

Find out how Microsoft works with governments to help them build scalable and sustainable programs that provide access to technology and enable practical skills for teachers and students in a digital world.

Learn how Microsoft has partnered with governments to overcome the challenges of implementing new policies and programs around universal access to digital learning by leveraging new technology and creating public/private partnerships.

This reports examines digital divides and media literacy.

Read these Windows 7 tips and tricks to increase your productivity.

Learn more about this unique partnership that will propose ways of assessing “21st-century skills.”

Learn more about education reform and the CIM partnership.

This guide from Microsoft provides information about accessibility and accessible technology to help educators worldwide ensure that all students have equal access to learning with technology.

The Envisioning Workshops produced by Education Impact offer ways for educators to develop, refine, and share the educational vision that supports new initiatives, policies or reforms - regardless of existing infrastructure and resources.

Learn how this newest version of Microsoft Office extends the suite of applications seamlessly from the desktop to the web and to mobile devices.

Find out how sharing best practices and models helps students achieve their full potential.

Read this research report from Canada's Organisation for Economic Co-operation on how knowledge and skills at age 15 shape future lives in Canada.

Learn more through this related research from McKinsey and Company.

On July 7, 2009, Singapore's minister of education hosted an International Education Roundtable discussion with ministers and senior representatives from six school systems around the world. This report summarizes their discussions.

This workshop series provides training and models to help organizations implement and manage change.

Read this report from the National Institute of Education in Singapore on transforming teacher education and achieving the vision of the 3:3:3 roadmap.

E-government has the potential to transform governance, using ICT for increased effectiveness and efficiency in the internal Government operations, and later opening up to allow direct interaction with the citizens.

Microsoft Student Innovative Suite provides affordable software for K-12 students for qualifying government and non-government organizations.

Your guide to what’s new in the Office 2010 suites available through Volume Licensing.

Learn about the World Education Indicators' Survey of Primary Schools (WEI-SPS), offering unique insight into the classrooms of 11 diverse countries in order to understand and monitor the factors shaping the quality and equality of primary education.

This report is a product of Education Sector’s Next Generation of Accountability initiative. The initiative seeks to strengthen public education by examining key elements of accountability.

Learn how Microsoft is delivering innovative education solutions, gaming, and programs to help governments create immersive, experiential learning environments for students. The result: Passionate lifelong learners who can thrive in a fast-changing world.

Microsoft can effectively work with any geography looking to implement and sustain education policy. Microsoft has a wide range of global programs, initiatives, and solutions that can map directly to the key dimensions of education.