Adobe, KNS offers s/w for educational courses

SAN JOSE, US: Adobe Systems Incorporated, on Monday announced that it has partnered with Knowledge Network Solutions, Inc., a provider in instructional technology solutions, to offer professional development courses for K-12 and higher education faculty.

The companies would provide on-site professional development to schools to help educators leverage Adobe software across the curricula as well as in vocational courses, said a press release.

“Digital skills are essential for living and working in the 21st century,” said Bob Regan, director of K-12 education at Adobe.

“By working with KNS to deliver courses to the Adobe education community, we are helping to ensure that teachers are well grounded in instruction techniques for building their students’ digital skills and reinforcing those skills across academic disciplines.”

As part of the offering, KNS has developed four two-day workshops that emphasize the use of Adobe Creative Suite 4 and Adobe Digital School Collection across academic disciplines.

The courses include graphic design, web design, video production, and photo, video, audio and web media. In addition to the two-day courses, KNS has also developed a one-day course on enabling institutions and districts to conduct their own staff development using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro and Presenter, said the release.

Each course is offered on-site at school campuses and is led by KNS technology integration specialists.

“At KNS we are focused on helping fellow educators throughout the U.S. and the greater global community to lead their students toward increased critical thinking, improved communication, creation and innovation using Adobe’s excellent software as a tool for learning,” said Lloyd Spruill, vice president of KNS.

He further added that Rather than focusing on individual products, our courses integrate these tools as needed for science, technology, engineering and math related problems.