Differences between LabVIEW Education Edition and LabVIEW 2009 + NXT Module

[lnh]

Recently saw the announcement regarding LabVIEW Education Edition.

From the information available at this time it's hard to tell the difference between this product and just adding the NXT module to standard LabVIEW 2009 if your only interest in LabVIEW is for NXT  programming.  Anymore details about this new product would be appreciated as well as info on how it's different from the alternative.  Are there some unique VIs not present in the standard NXT module?  Obviously the pricing is very different, but for a student the academic version of LabVIEW is actually lower cost than this new Education Edition.

[George_P_Burdell]

Inh-

LabVIEW Education Edition (LVEE) includes the NXT Module and the API to interface with Vernier products.    LVEE is geared towards middle school and high school classrooms to get students interested in math and science.  It includes curriculum for teachers that may not be familiar with programming and LabVIEW in general to use the NXT bricks and the LabVIEW environment. 

LabVIEW with the NXT module only has the NXT API and not the Vernier API.  It will not include the course work and as extensive example programming useful for teaching. 

For additional information on LVEE, please take a look at the Getting Started with LabVIEW Education Edition or go to ni.com and search for “labview education edition”.