Tagged: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt & News
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Tech start-up of the week: ThoughtBox News
22.07.2012 Our start-up of the week is ThoughtBox, a new venture that’s on a mission to disrupt the way kids learn maths and science via interactive games. The company’s first app...Categories: Software Development, Software, Science, Multimedia, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Education, Apps -
The five minute CIO: Dominick Griffin News
04.05.2012 Welcome to the latest in a series of exclusive interviews on Siliconrepublic.com, where Ireland’s IT leaders share their thoughts on technology trends and strategy. This week,...Categories: Software, Leadership & Management, IT Management, Education, CIO, Careers and Employment -
Irish HMH team launches Curious George iOS app News
12.04.2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has released for iOS devices its learning app Curious George At The Zoo, which was developed in HMH’s Irish R&D hub. We spoke to Emmet O’Neill,... -
350,000 textbooks downloaded from Apple iBooks in 3 days - report News
23.01.2012 Apple’s iBooks Store experienced more than 350,000 textbook downloads just three days after the company launched its new education initiative, says Global Equities Research. -
Apple’s designs on disrupting textbook biz becoming clearer News
17.01.2012 Apple is reportedly working with some of the largest texbook publishers in the world – including McGraw-Hill and potentially Ireland's own Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – on a new...Categories: Wireless Communications, R&D, Multimedia, Mobility, Media, Internet, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Education, Digital Media, Apps -
HMH launches Number Stax game to boost maths skills News
18.01.2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has launched Number Stax, a puzzle game app designed in Dublin aimed at students aged 12 and over to help them develop their maths skills. -
Digital education today means digital workforce of tomorrow News
27.09.2011 One of the world’s biggest digital education providers has its global R&D headquarters in Dublin. Heading up Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s innovation operations, Fiona O’Carroll...Categories: R&D, Mobility, Leadership & Management, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Government, Education, Digital 21, Development -
The big leap forward in digital education News
21.07.2011 Ireland has an opportunity to leapfrog the rest of the world in digital education. All that is missing is a visionary State strategy for digital schools.Categories: Jobs, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Government, Education, Digital 21, Development -
Global Education Challenge seeks ideas from Ireland online News
19.05.2011 Game-changing ideas to dramatically improve education worldwide are being sought from Ireland for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Global Education Challenge, which will be...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, R&D, Mobile, Internet, Education, Apps -
Driving the digital future News
10.03.2011 Global education publisher HMH is spearheading a €350m R&D strategy from Dublin and is on course to generate 450 jobs. -
Content of substance News
02.02.2011 Before everyone gets hung up on the hardware, the real gift of technology is the kaleidoscope of content that can be brought into the classroom and the home and usher in a... -
The 21st-century worker News
02.02.2011 "Picture the Victorian classroom in your mind, with the children sitting in rows and the teacher at the top at a blackboard,” said John Lawlor, director of Bridge21, a programme... -
Fiona O’Carroll, senior vice-president, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt News
03.02.2011 I would hope that we, as a country, understand the critical nature of continuing to invest in our human capital. It has served us well in the past and I would hope there is... -
The teaching profession and the digital opportunity News
02.02.2011 Teachers have as much to gain as their students from the onset of digital education. The opportunity to grow personally and professionally is at their fingertips. -
World’s first algebra app for iPad made in Dublin News
20.09.2010 Digital education giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has unveiled a year-long pilot of the first-ever full curriculum algebra app for the iPad. The app will be piloted in school...Categories: Software, R&D, Mobility, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital 21, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Online and software resources for schools News
14.09.2010 The internet, the laptop and the interactive whiteboard are the three cornerstones of the modern education process. Both inside and outside of the classroom children rely on the... -
Set sail on the 7 Cs News
14.09.2010 The kids who will be tomorrow’s workforce are expected to be digitally literate and armed with critical-thinking skills and the ability to cut their way through oceans of data.... -
Weekend news roundup News
20.09.2010 A quick glance at some of the technology stories breaking in the weekend papers. -
CJ Fallon launches e-learning platform for primary maths News
02.06.2010 Publisher CJ Fallon has launched a version of a digital learning programme called Destination Maths, which was developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt specifically for Irish...Categories: Education -
Time to transform school into a place where kids go to learn, not to power down News
10.12.2009 Remember, the €150m investment in schools’ IT is really just the first step on a longer journey.Categories: R&D