By Lindsay McKenzie. Salesforce, the world’s largest customer relationship management platform, has announced a new classroom-ready training scheme called Trailhead for Students. An expansion of Salesforce’s existing training platform Trailhead, Trailhead for Students makes it easy for educators to incorporate Salesforce training into an existing class, or deliver the training as a standalone class or bootcamp, with ready-made curricula. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. Target has announced a partnership with Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, which will see products from Target's "college essentials" line promoted to Barnes & Noble campus bookstore customers across the country. The move is widely reported as a response to stiff competition for student dollars from online retailer Amazon. More...

Techno-News Blog. Google says over the next five years it will spend $1 billion on nonprofit organizations helping to raise education levels around the world and commit its employees to a million hours of volunteer work doing the same. CEO Sundar Pichai announced the goal Thursday morning in Pittsburgh, the city where he arrived in the U.S. from India 24 years ago. More...

Techno-News Blog. The concept of graphic organizers and thinking maps is all too familiar in the field of education. From outlining an expository text to storyboarding a narrative one, concept maps or mind maps are a commonly used tool in K-12. This tool is equally beneficial in the business world, especially in the arena of Instructional Design. More...