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March 04, 2016
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UW engineers achieve wi-fi at 10,000 times lower power
passive wi-fi

The upside of wi-fi is that it’s everywhere – invisibly connecting laptops to printers, allowing smartphones to make calls or stream movies without cell service, and letting online gamers battle it out. The downside is that using wi-fi consumes a significant amount of energy, draining the batteries on all those…

Another critical campus area now moving to the cloud
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In an innovative move, faculty from colleges and universities are working with a tech company to create fully mobile, real-world, cloud-based virtual labs.

University of Phoenix launches Center for Learning Analytics Research
learning analytics

Recognizing the importance of how academic technologies and data inform student success, University of Phoenix School of Advanced Studies announced the opening of the Center for Learning Analytics Research. The research center will focus on elevating educational offerings in the digital age through better understanding of teaching and learning through…

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The future of textbooks looks like this

Faculty and students may still prefer print to digital, but spikes in print costs, as well as a demand for personalization, is pushing digital textbooks and course materials to the implementation forefront. But are any faculty really going digital? Which content distributors will thrive? What are the implementation concerns? And…

STEM crisis quickly becoming an IT problem

According to recent data, Gen Z demands that devices and software—and the support required to use them—be woven into their daily lives; yet, most of this digital native generation has no interest in having an IT career.

Research: Social media has negative impact on academic performance

Perusing Facebook, sending rapid-fire text messages, and tweeting back and forth with friends and celebrities alike might not be the best academic strategy, it turns out.


 


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