University of Phoenix enrollment drops 42%
Student enrollment at University of Phoenix parent Apollo Group nose-dived 42 percent in the three months that ended Dec. 30, and on Monday investors learned that company executives believe it is only the beginning, The Arizona republic reports.
Putting the APP in Apple: Does Apple own ‘app store’?
Apple (AAPL) iPhone may “own” the smartphone market by virtue of being the market leader in sales. And it may “own” the app market because hundreds of thousands of apps are available for the iPhone. But does Apple own the words “app store”? asks appolicious.
Facebook to start sharing AMBER Alerts
Facebook has teamed up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Department of Justice and the Virginia State Police to make it easier to spread news about abducted children, reports the Washington Post.
States look to Indiana as a model for online instruction
Washington state could mimic Indiana’s successful online education model if a state legislator’s proposed bill that would make online college classes more available to students there becomes law.
For minorities, new ‘digital divide’ seen
When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the Internet began to change life as we know it, these groups had less access to the Web and slower online connections placing them on the wrong side of the “digital divide.”
Blackboard backs ed-tech standards
Common standards for online learning became more likely this week after Blackboard, Inc. announced that it would support an open database initiative that could make educational content usable on any platform.
Obama’s internet plan sounds an awful lot like a national internet ID
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announce to the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research on Friday that President Obama intended to turn over development of a national Internet ID to the Commerce Department, reports ReadWriteWeb.
Red flags at a college, but tied hands
Jared L. Loughner is accused of trying to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona on Saturday, reports the New York Times.
Can you build a better brain?
This would be a whole lot easier—this quest for ways to improve our brain—if scientists understood the mechanisms of intelligence even half as well as they do the mechanisms of, say, muscular strength, says Newsweek.
Apple launches app store for Mac computer software
Apple Inc. is expanding the “app store” idea that caught fire on the iPhone and iPad to its line of Mac computers, the Associated Press reports.