Improving K-12 education with shared data and open APIs

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/improving-k-12-education-shared-data-and-open-apis-220949?source=rss_open_source_software

Friday, June 21, 2013 10:44 AMImproving K-12 education with shared data and open APIsOpen Source Software - InfoworldAndrew Oliver

Recently, I wrote about Code for America, which aims to solve the data and application side of your local government. The K-12 education answer to Code for America is called inBloom (to which my company provides professional services). inBloom started as the Shared Learning Collaborative, with the idea of making student data more easily accessible to educators and creating a marketplace of applications that use the data.