Dow Jones offers multimedia training. http://www.facebook.com/MultimediaTrainingAcademy

Dow Jones events. http://www.dowjones.com/events/home.aspx

Wall Street Journal - news content for school students and teachers. http://student.wsj.com/info/2010/08/10/entrepreneurship/

Financial Times - news content for teachers.
http://education.ft.com/

Bloomberg - tests for bankers and traders
https://www.bloomberginstitute.com/bat/start/

Bloomberg University - link no longer works, but uni still holds courses to use its software
http://www2.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=79953

Reuters - markets related training
https://customers.reuters.com/training/trainingcrm/

New York Times - materials for school students
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/12-ways-to-use-the-learning-network-this-school-year/

International Herald Tribune - list of online courses by other providers
http://www.iht.com.masterstudies.com/

IHT education Asian news
http://www.facebook.com/IHTAmbassador

You Tube - educational videos, videos for teachers
http://www.youtube.com/education
http://www.youtube.com/teachers

Facebook - using its functions for class activity
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/ways-to-use-facebook-effectively-in-class/15269

Improving online education. http://sloanconsortium.org

Piazzza, a social network, lets students and teachers interact. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2808

Skype to do language courses. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/arabic/article.cfm?articleid=2538

Mukerji expects more publishers to adopt cloud technologies over the next 12-to-18 months to monetize their printed content and move towards convergence of multimedia platforms. He offers
the example of media companies that have introduced device-agnostic digital learning tools — based on studies of how students prepare for tests and how instructors develop lesson plans for technology courses. Such tools are among the many ways in which publishers are utilizing new technologies to respond to the fundamental shifts taking place in the industry, says Mukerji.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/sponsor_collaborations/2012_02_Future%20of%20Industry%20—%20New%20Business%20Opportunities%20for%20Telecom,%20Media%20and%20Technology.pdf

Apple in education publishing.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2944

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2437

SAS Institute, business analytics firm sponsors online learning for high school kids.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2660

Chinese firms offering online education. http://www.knowledgeatwharton.com.cn/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&articleid=2364&languageid=1

IE Spain offers online MBA. http://www.wharton.universia.net/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=1492&language=english

Global initiatives. http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/southeastasia/knowledge/Education_Roundtable.pdf

Goldman Sachs and Wharton created online education in business for women in emerging markets. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/10000women/aboutus.cfm

As technology that allows for people globally to communicate with one another is constantly improving, Horn spoke with Arabic Knoweldge@Wharton on global innovations he sees in education and on how technologies can allow for countries around the globe to leap frog the way educational institutions were traditionally developed in countries such as the U.S. using a bricks-and-mortar model. An edited transcript of the conversation follows: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/arabic/article.cfm?articleid=2785

The problem with experience, to paraphrase American baseball player Vernon Law, is that it gives the test before the lesson. Students either spend countless hours in classrooms acquiring knowledge that isn

Free, by IBM Visual Communication Lab: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/

Free version: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public

Collect data via Twitter: http://flowingdata.com/

More complicated but can handle large amounts of data: http://www.python.org/

To create animated and interactive graphics: http://processing.org/

Animated graphics: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash.html

Animated graphics: http://flare.prefuse.org/

Animated maps: http://modestmaps.com/

Advanced animated maps: http://polymaps.org/

Google charts: https://developers.google.com/chart/

Free, data graphics: http://www.r-project.org/

How to use R: http://spatial-analyst.net/book/download

Adobe Illustrator: http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html

Open source alt to Adobe Illustrator: http://inkscape.org/

Tutorial for Inkscape: http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/

Build maps: https://developers.google.com/maps/

HTML code - how to change: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/custom_theme

Twitter updates - how to make them viral: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/

Website updates - auto to Facebook: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/

Flickr updates: http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne

Site sharing: http://sharethis.com/publishers/get-sharing-tools

Google talk badge: http://www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New

Linkedin widget: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/profile-widget

Thumbnails that link to your site: http://www.linkwithin.com/learn

Google connect widget: http://www.google.com/friendconnect/admin/tos/