Belkin Portable Tablet Stage Turns Tablets and Smart Phones into Interactive Digital Creation and Presentation Tools
Belkin Will Demonstrate Tablet Stage and Stage App for Classroom Use at TCEA 2014 TCEA 2014 – AUSTIN, Texas – ... Read more
Month: February 2014
Bitcoin tuition payments: Revolution or PR stunt?
A university in England has become the first public institution to accept the digital currency bitcoin as payment for course fees, though the announcement has some skeptics decrying…
New Coursera MOOC, same as the old MOOC
Coursera announced last month the launch of Specializations, sequenced courses designed to help students achieve deeper levels of mastery as well as the credentials to demonstrate that mastery.…
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News Release For Immediate Release IVEDA® AWARDED MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR, MULTI-YEAR CONTRACT FOR CLOUD VIDEO SURVEILLANCE Iveda’s Sentir™ Cloud Platform to ... Read more
Why the only thing better than big data is bigger data
For many businesses, big data is superfluous. Except, a recently-published paper on the mathematics of big data reveals, when it isn’t, Quartz reports. It turns out there is…
In our MOOC moment, public opinion about teacher quality irrelevant
The New York Times published an editorial last month, “Why Other Countries Teach Better,” that compared three countries to the U.S. and raised concerns that poorly trained teachers…
6 ways Big Data is changing higher education
Big Data is being used in colleges and universities to help optimize student performance and streamline their path toward a degree. But not everybody agrees with this controversial…
Coursera flirts with diplomas: online ‘specialization’ is $250
Complete your studies at a traditional university, and you earn a cap-and-gown ceremony with a smiling dean handing you a diploma. Wrap up online instruction, and nothing so…
College students shifting from consumers to creators
With the help of library “makerspaces” and 3D printers, college students could soon see their role on campus shifting from consumers to creators, a new report said. The…
MOOCs: ‘Cakewalk for some’ and ‘a disaster for others’
The president of Stanford University, a laboratory for massive open online course (MOOC) experimentation, questions the future of MOOCs as key pieces to schools' online education programs. John…