Technologies
Legislation says universities can’t monitor social media accounts
Protecting the social media privacy of college students and university employees once again proved to be a a bipartisan issue May 16, as the North Carolina House passed a bill…
The six major anxieties of social media
Since humans are both social animals and neurotic ones, we bring to each social setting a corresponding set of social anxieties, New York Magazine reports. …
Cash for educational apps?
Leading learning management system providers, including Instructure, Desire2Learn, and Blackboard, are offering $250 rewards to anyone who creates an app for the Learning Tools Interoperability standard, also known as LTI.…
UAV technology for campus security being developed at University of Alabama
With campus safety and security in mind, engineering students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville are working with the campus police department to perfect unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies…
MIT researchers hoping to make cloud computing more efficient
Cloud computing can use about 20 times as much hardware as it needs to function properly, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers believe an algorithm could be the key…
10 ed-tech tools of the 70s, 80s, and 90s
We don’t know about you, but sometimes our mind is blown here at eSchool News hearing about the ed-tech kids get to learn with these days: mobile gaming apps,…
Student test fire of ’3D-printed’ handgun draw lawmakers’ ire
After successfully firing a gun made with a 3-D printer over the weekend, a University of Texas law school student hopes to refine the prototype and ultimately distribute online files…
British teenager wins $100,000 US technology fellowship
Eighteen-year-old Andrew Brackin has just been given the offer of a life time, BBC Radio reports. …
The world’s top universities in 2012
The world’s top universities have a lot in common – renowned academics, rich histories, and a Cambridge postal code, The Christian Science Monitor reports. …
Which students spend the most time online?
College students of every kind spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet, but engineering and technology students take the proverbial web-surfing cake. It was students interested in technology and…