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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.…
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…
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…
Students team up to stop computer hackers at UMaine competition
Computer giant Apple Inc. was attacked by hackers who infected employees’ computers, the Twitter account of Burger King was hit with online graffiti and a “MiniDuke” virus infiltrated government and…
Use of predictive analytics paying dividends at one university
Two years after first using predictive analytics to suggest courses and majors for students, officials at Austin Peay State University are reporting significant increases in passing grades across the institution.…
Should everyone go to college?
Not all college degrees or all college graduates are created equal, according to a new Brookings Institution brief. …
Reading, writing and computer coding — the basics of the future
A growing number of students are learning to code, but many entrepreneurs, celebrities and educators -- from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to actor Ashton Kutcher to pro basketball player Chris…
Free textbook developer could save students $750M over five years
OpenStax College, a publisher based at Rice University, announced last week that the nonprofit would more than double the number of free downloadable textbooks over the next two years.…