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Big Data Professors Want Your Data Sets
Access to large, relevant data sets is the biggest problem facing business intelligence and data analytics instructors and students, new survey finds.
U.K. Weighs Ways To Encourage IT Career Path
Britain can't take advantage of the growing worldwide cybersecurity economic boom unless more young people take up IT as a career.
Education Data: Privacy Backlash Begins
Privacy and education experts sound alarms about the movement to capture and analyze more and more student data, even as edu tech companies decry...
CIO Profiles: Ellen Borkowski Of Union College
Ellen Borkowski's CIO responsibilities at small liberal arts college include her twin technology objectives: make teaching and learning more...
U.K.'s Prized Creative Industry At Risk, Study Says
British creative industry must ramp up technological innovation or risk being left behind, says think tank.
European Students Need Better Tech Training, Study Says
IT is distributed unevenly across schools, with 20% of secondary students never using computers for school work, reports European Commission.
Higher Education Taps Teambox For Social Collaboration
Teambox, as a task-oriented, cloud-based social collaboration tool, is a flexible option for collaborative learning and other campus projects.
Vidyo Videoconferencing Coming To Internet2
Internet2 member universities will soon be able to add Vidyo to their subscriptions for high-speed network access.
Boosting The ROI Of Your IT Degree
A technology-focused master's degree can be the key to a better job.
HP Unveils Online 'STEMx' Courses For Teachers
HP Catalyst Academy will offer teachers MOOC-driven "mini-courses" on traditional STEM disciplines, plus other high-tech subjects.
MOOC Founder Stresses Partnership With Teachers
Lynda Weinman assures educators that popular tutorials website Lynda.com wants to be a resource, not a replacement, for schools and universities.
Education Giant Pearson Adapts To Digital Learning
Pearson, the world's largest educational publisher, recognized older students as online learning harbinger.
Modo Labs Showcases Mobile College Admissions
Admissions 2.0, which lets prospective students learn about a school, set up a visit and apply for admission, is part of a broader Mobile Campus...
Udemy Comes To Corporate Training
Udemy for Organizations lets companies create their own branded learning channels and create private courses with Udemy's tools.
Educational Software Gets Graded
Edu Star platform aims to give teachers, schools and developers empirical rankings of education tech tools, accelerating application innovation...
Dell: SMB, School PCs Not Doomed By Tablets
Dell reveals a new Latitude laptop, sans touchscreen, for small businesses and schools. What does the future hold for PCs in these environments?
Distance Learning Regulation Needs Simplification, Officials Say
Former education secretary Richard Riley heads effort to make it easier for students to take online classes by standardizing state regulations.
Canvas LMS Maker Launches Open Education Apps Directory
Learning management system developer Instructure promotes the Learning Tools Interoperability specification as it preps its own Canvas App Center.
Daytona State College Adapts LMS To Improve Student Outcome
College uses Desire2Learn to better manage online learning programs as well as measure student achievement.
California Expands Use Of MOOCs
California expands edX "blended" classroom experiment, sees increase in course pass rates.
8 MOOCs Transforming Education
The early market for massive open online courses (MOOCs) brings more approaches than you might realize. Take a look at 8 game changers.
Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers
Edmodo's rapidly growing network of teachers, students and education technology publishers are helping it develop into a free learning management...
How Rafter Helps Colleges Cut Textbook Costs
Textbook rental broker finds niche partnering with public colleges to lower the cost of higher education.
Dropbox In The Classroom: 4 Great Uses
Dropbox cloud-based service does more than basic storage jobs for educators, with no IT help required.
Robotics Competition: Tomorrow's Tech Talent Has Game
At the FIRST Robotics Competition, teens learn about technology trade-offs, strategy and teamwork. NASA and major tech firms say the contest...
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