Profile of David F Carr

Editor, InformationWeek Healthcare

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David F. Carr is Editor of InformationWeek Healthcare. He previously led coverage of social business and education technologies and continues to contribute in those areas. He is the editor of Social Collaboration for Dummies (Wiley, Oct. 2013) and was the social business track chair for UBM's E2 conference in 2012 and 2013. He is a frequent speaker and panel moderator at industry events. David is a former Technology Editor of Baseline Magazine and Internet World magazine and has freelanced for publications including CIO Magazine, CIO Insight, and Defense Systems. He has also worked as a web consultant and is the author of several WordPress plugins, including Facebook Tab Manager and RSVPMaker. David works from a home office in Coral Springs, Florida. Contact him at david.carr@ubm.comand follow him at @davidfcarr.

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Oracle: Villain Or Scapegoat In Oregon Insurance Exchange Mess?

3/6/2014
Even as Oregon works to exit a troubled IT services contract with Oracle, a longtime critic of the state's health insurance exchange project says the blame belongs elsewhere.
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Time Warner Wants To Bring Telemedicine Home

3/5/2014
Virtual Visits trial has Time Warner Cable technicians installing Tely Labs equipment to help Cleveland Clinic lower hospital readmissions.
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The Quest For Population Health Management

3/4/2014
Vendors large and small seek to prove they have the right tools for proactively managing patient health, coordinating care across providers, and supporting accountable-care models.
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UPMC Tablet App Speeds EHR Access

2/28/2014
Convergence, a touch app for Windows 8 tablets created by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, gives fingertip access to patient summary data pulled from one or more underlying electronic health record systems.
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HIMSS14 Survey: Healthcare CIOs Focus On Fiscal Survival

2/26/2014
HIMSS members say top business objective is to sustain financial viability as regulation, payment models change.
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Social Collaboration, Small Business Style

2/25/2014
Choose social collaboration tools based on your company's size and ambitions -- and the sensitivity of the business you will discuss.
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HIMSS14: Cloud EHR Vendors Court Hospitals

2/24/2014
Athenahealth brings care coordination app to hospitals, while startup iCare aims to take "cloud VistA" beyond academic trials.
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HIMSS14: Healthcare CIOs Wrestle With Economic & Regulatory Pressures

2/24/2014
A McKinsey consultant tells CHIME CIOs they will have to innovate their ways out of an economic squeeze. Regulators hint at some flexibility.
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CIO To CIO: Advice On ACOs

2/24/2014
Healthcare CIOs share their advice on coping with the rise of accountable care organizations and the crush of regulation.
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HIMSS Security Survey: Greatest Threat From Healthcare Insiders

2/19/2014
The HIMSS survey of 283 IT and security professionals says the biggest concern is healthcare workers looking into electronic health records.
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Athenahealth Teams With Doctor-Led ACO

2/19/2014
Privia Health will integrate the AthenaHealth EHR with its own technology for tracking the follow-up care essential to ACO success.
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Healthcare IT In The Obamacare Era

2/18/2014
Modern technology created the opportunity to restructure the healthcare industry around accountable care organizations, but IT priorities are also being driven by the shift.
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Voalte One Comes To Android

2/18/2014
Hospital communications app, originally for iPhones, will ship on Motorola Solutions' WiFi smartphone for hospitals.
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Homecare IT: 1 Market Epic Doesn't Dominate

2/14/2014
Specialty vendors Homecare Homebase and Thornberry get the highest ratings from customers, says KLAS Research, with healthcare IT juggernaut Epic Systems described as a "laggard."
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IBM Watson Gets App Partner: Meet Welltok

2/12/2014
App ecosystem partner Welltok will use Dr. Watson's wisdom to improve its CafeWell app.
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Secret Sauce For ACOs: One Healthcare CIO's Answer

2/11/2014
Hackensack University Medical Center CIO Shafiq Rab says building an accountable care organization meant looking beyond EHRs.
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Doctors & EHR: Can This Shotgun Marriage Be Saved?

2/11/2014
Lots of doctors hate EHR software. What makes the difference for those who are happier with it?
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Can This Search Tool Make Doctors Love EHR?

2/7/2014
QPID, a Partners HealthCare spinoff, creates a clinical decision support tool to solve physicians' big gripe about EHRs -- buried data.
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Texas Hospital Discloses Huge Breach

2/5/2014
St. Joseph Health System reports that as many as 405,000 records may have been compromised, but actual damage remains speculative.
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Medication Cabinets 'Talk' To Cerner EHR

2/5/2014
Omnicell cabinets get medication orders directly from Cerner electronic health record software at Montana's Billings Clinic, eliminating dangerous duplicate orders.
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Athenahealth Wins KLAS Overall Best Software Rating

1/31/2014
Cloud vendor captures a recognition held by Epic for the past eight years.
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What Consumer-Driven Healthcare Really Means

1/31/2014
Patient engagement will be a survival skill for hospitals in the business-to-consumer, high-deductible, accountable-care era.
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Target Thinks Retail About Healthcare

1/29/2014
Time to act more like retailers, Target medical director Joshua Riff tells healthcare leaders at the eHealth Initiative conference.
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Edward Marx, Healthcare CIO Of The Year

1/23/2014
Texas Health Resources CIO Edward Marx, honored by HIMSS and CHIME, recognized the importance of technology in healthcare after a personal crisis.
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GE Acquires API Healthcare For Staff Schedule Optimization

1/21/2014
Top-ranked software for nurse scheduling will expand GE's hospital operations management portfolio.
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IMS Health: Pharma Companies Should Engage On Social Media

1/21/2014
While many firms await regulatory guidance, patients are actively seeking health information online.
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Healthcare.gov Still Insecure, Critics Tell House Panel

1/16/2014
At Congressional hearing, critic who suggested in November site should be shut down says, "Nothing has changed."
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Athenahealth To Share EHR Data With Physicians Group

1/15/2014
Athenahealth to send its data on quality care to American College of Physicians, helping customers achieve a Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirement for quality data sharing.
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Pediatricians Welcome Patients With Surface Tablets, EHRs

1/13/2014
A practice in Microsoft's backyard, Pediatric Associates of Bellevue, Wash., uses Surface tablets equipped with Greenway's mobile EHR software to record patient visits, beginning at birth.
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Practice Fusion, Practice iQ Team To Support ACOs

1/13/2014
Combination of EHR, analytics will support independent physicians who want to participate in accountable care organizations.
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Obamacare: Separating Politics From Practicalities

1/10/2014
The Affordable Care Act is President Obama's legacy, but it didn't start with his administration. While politicians can create gridlock, health IT pros must deal in reality and compromise.
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CES: Gym Equipment Links To Microsoft HealthVault

1/8/2014
Fitness club members will be able to use a touch screen console to record activity, then pipe it to a personal health record.
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Voice Recognition Speeds EHR Use For Oklahoma Hospital

1/3/2014
In addition to reducing doctors' note-taking burden, Dragon Medical software saved the Norman Regional Health System $1.8 million in transcription services last year.
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Healthcare Tech Leaders Share New Year's Resolutions

1/2/2014
Here's what health CIOs and other tech leaders plan to make happen in 2014.
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Healthcare Data Breaches To Surge In 2014

12/26/2013
The healthcare industry will see even bigger breaches of data and patient privacy in 2014, an Experian report says.
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Med School Profs Exploit Video Lecture Capture

12/19/2013
Students can replay lectures they missed or skim through ones they attended for forgotten details.
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How WellCare Manages Health IT Risks, Security

12/18/2013
WellCare execs describe how a healthy tension between IT and security groups helps them to contain risks.
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Partners HealthCare CIO: Inside Our Clinical Transformation

12/17/2013
CIO James Noga says the largest healthcare system in Massachusetts is proud of its technological leadership, but still needs to do better.
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Drchrono Enhances iPad EHR: API, Apps

12/13/2013
Appointment scheduling, imaging apps, and even a competing medical billing service will tap cloud service.
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Hackers Outsmart Pacemakers, Fitbits: Worried Yet?

12/12/2013
Mobile health devices aren't as secure as you might think. Look at how researchers plan to strengthen security for consumer devices and regulated medical devices.
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2014 Healthcare Industry Forecast: Sweeping Change

12/11/2013
Long-percolating trends will come to a head with implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the rise of private exchanges, says PwC report.
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Cisco Brings Telemedicine Home

12/11/2013
Cisco Extended Care aims to reach patients at home through chat, video appointments, a Web portal, and, later, app and device integration.
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How Would You Fix HealthCare.gov?

12/4/2013
The Obamacare website launch was an embarrassment. Whether it's truly "fixed" is questionable. What actions would you take, IT pros, and what lessons have you learned?
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How I'd Fix HealthCare.gov: Extend Health CEO

12/3/2013
Government shouldn't be in the business of trying to provide "a spectacular user experience," says head of the largest Medicare insurance exchange operator.
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How We'd Fix HealthCare.gov: Scalability Experts Speak

12/3/2013
Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher, consultants on building large-scale websites, say one answer to retooling HealthCare.gov is creating "swim lanes" for each state the federal website serves.
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Google Glass Enables Surgeons To Consult Remotely

11/29/2013
When surgeon Brent Ponce wore Google Glass during a shoulder replacement, the ghostly hand of a remote collaborator coached him along.
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Obamacare Drives One Health Plan's BPM Adoption

11/25/2013
Regulatory changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act prompted Fallon Health Plans to decide it needed a flexible framework for automating its business process management.
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R.I.'s Direct Approach To Health Information Exchange

11/20/2013
CIO Gary Christensen saw that if doctors could exchange records directly, the state's centralized HIE would also benefit.
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Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush's Quest: A Healthcare Internet

11/19/2013
Experiences as Army medic, ambulance driver, and failed healthcare practice manager gave Bush the idea for a new way of structuring healthcare.
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Athenahealth: The Other Side Of The Cloud

11/19/2013
Athenahealth offers cloud software, but to call it a healthcare cloud software company misses the point.
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HealthCare.gov: Biggest Security Risks Yet To Come

11/15/2013
Push to fix Healthcare.gov by the end of November might create more problems, says security expert.
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Free EHR Helps Practice Fusion Grow

11/15/2013
Practice Fusion CEO Ryan Howard wants doctors to know they don't have to pay for the privilege of adopting electronic health records.
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Enterprise Social Graph For Dummies

11/15/2013
To make social collaboration work, focus on creating and reinforcing the underlying connections.
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Surgical Robots: Look Who's Coming To The OR

11/15/2013
Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system dominates the field, but it doesn't have a lock on innovation. Take a look at present and future surgical robots.
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Health Information Exchange Needs A Simpler Model

11/8/2013
The CEOs of four cloud-based healthcare IT firms express skepticism about HIEs, seeing them as a bureaucracy rather than a workable architecture.
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How San Diego HIE Plans To Outlive Federal Support

11/6/2013
Former Beacon health information exchange, relaunching as community organization San Diego Health Connect, makes affiliates of private HIEs in region.
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CareCloud Books Appointment With ZocDoc

10/29/2013
Cloud practice management and EHR service connects with the consumer-friendly appointment booking service, part of broader platform strategy.
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Jive Customers Say Yes To Cloud

10/24/2013
Jive customers like Nuance Communications have gone from traditional to cloud hosting, while Thomson Reuters plans to switch over its 60,000 employee social portal in 2014.
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Jive Pushes More Functionality Into Cloud

10/24/2013
Jive previews new metrics, task system and other features to debut in cloud first, then Jive 7. Its new JiveX cloud product is for external communities.
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Social Collaboration For Dummies Meets JiveWorld

10/21/2013
As my new book launches, I'd like to give a shout out to community.jivesoftware.com, Jive's network of enterprise community managers and strategists.
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Why Doctors Hate EHR Software

10/18/2013
Have meaningful use incentives merely propelled sales for a lot of lousy software?
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Online Service Aims To Simplify Hospital Bills

10/14/2013
As the hospital revenue mix shifts from insurers to patients, online services like Simplee can improve collections with bills that are easier to understand and pay.
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Practice Fusion Guarantees Meaningful Use Stage 2

10/10/2013
Free cloud-based EHR, sold primarily to individual doctors and small practices, says it will be certified in time for 2014 incentives.
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Social Site Aims To Connect Healthcare Community

10/8/2013
Next Wave Connect has potential to become the go-to professional social network for the healthcare industry, says Darren Dworkin, CIO of Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles.
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Why Medical Gadgets Need Digital Consumer Touches

10/7/2013
People don't like to be reminded they're sick. That's one reason why tomorrow's health gadget needs to look more like a smartphone than a clunky medical device.
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Salesforce Communities App Speeds Patient Assistance

10/3/2013
Nonprofit Health Leads connects hospital hospital patients with social services faster using cloud-based collaboration app built with Salesforce tool.
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Appointment With Drchrono? Bring Your iPad

10/3/2013
Electronic health records app Drchrono can use the new iOS 7 Airdrop feature to let doctors wirelessly beam documents to patients and each other.
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Obamacare Insurance Exchange Websites: Tech Critique

10/2/2013
State and federal websites' failure to work as advertised in first days of insurance availability can be blamed on software bottlenecks due to poor design.
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Obamacare: The Rise Of Private Health Insurance Exchanges

9/30/2013
Tuesday’s launch of state and federal health insurance marketplaces is also prompting new interest in private exchanges as legal landscape changes.
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GetInsured Wants To Be Cloud Provider To State Exchanges

9/30/2013
Website provides cloud back-end for New Mexico health insurance exchange and software for California insurance marketplace, with hopes to expand.
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Tech Glitches Trip Obamacare Exchange Launches

9/26/2013
Several state health insurance exchanges say their websites might not be 100% functional on Oct. 1 launch date because of bugs that incorrectly calculate policy prices, among other problems.
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Fed Health IT Chief And Deputy Departing

9/26/2013
Office of the National Coordinator deputy David S. Muntz will join chief Farzad Mostashari in Oct. 4 departure.
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N.Y. State Preps InBloom Student Data Dashboards

9/23/2013
Education officials persist with plans for an education portal despite public and political objections to InBloom's cloud-based data warehouse. But will it work?
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Stanford Hospital Offers Doctor Visits Via Video

9/19/2013
Patients who don't need in-person care can schedule video visits through the hospital website and "meet" with the doctor using a computer equipped with a webcam.
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Doctors Use Social For Continuous Medical Education

9/18/2013
By rebranding what they do on blogs and Twitter, advocates of Free Open Access Medical Education, or #FOAMed, seek to accelerate medical knowledge sharing.
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Feds Seek To Educate Patients On Info Sharing

9/17/2013
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers guidelines and open-source software that healthcare institutions can use to help patients understand what they are agreeing to.
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Medicine Must Get Social

9/12/2013
Patients find a lot of good -- and bad -- healthcare information online. That's why doctors need to be as digitally literate as their patients.
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HIPAA Changes Driving Customers To Cloud, Verizon Says

9/10/2013
HIPAA update clarifies that service providers share accountability in protecting patient data, encouraging more healthcare providers to consider the cloud.
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Microsoft Health App Prize Goes To Nova Southeastern

9/10/2013
Contest for Windows 8 apps that link to Microsoft HealthVault was won by a pharmacy college team investigating consumer health apps.
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Oklahoma U. Brings Order To Digital Disarray

9/5/2013
OU's "One University" digital learning program includes the development of iBooks and "MOOC-like" courses as well as the university's own iTunes channel. One of seven profiles of IW 500 Business Innovation Award winners.
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Michigan Health Information Network Harnesses Salesforce.com

9/5/2013
Health information exchange builds network faster by developing software in the cloud, tapping Salesforce.com's APIs and relationship management components.
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MOOC Features Lessons From 'The Walking Dead'

9/3/2013
AMC, UC Irvine and Canvas Network to offer massive open online course on lessons of the zombie apocalypse for public health, science and mathematics.
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Pearson Expands Online Adaptive Learning To Science, Business

8/29/2013
Pearson will use Knewton's big-data technology to power its online tutoring service for college biology, anatomy/physiology, chemistry, physics, finance and accounting students.
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MOOC Math Students Beat On-Campus Pass Rate

8/28/2013
Udacity-San Jose State MOOC partnership, paused over poor early results, turns a corner and will resume.
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Disruptive Education Advocate Encouraged By Obama Focus

8/28/2013
Christensen Institute's Michael Horn says Obama college ratings proposal could be valuable without link to student financial aid.
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Kelley School Of Business Chunks Courses For Corporate Use

8/22/2013
Indiana University's Kelley School of Business delivers short modules on specific sales and management skills to fill corporate training needs.
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Open Textbooks Advocate Circles Back To Tech

8/22/2013
Rice University electrical and computer engineering professor Richard Baraniuk helped create OpenStax online series to solve a practical need for a good textbook.
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Graphite.org: Educational Apps, Rated By Educators

8/21/2013
New directory from Common Sense Media, backed by Bill Gates, helps teachers find best educational apps.
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Udacity Hedges On Open Licensing For MOOCs

8/20/2013
While videos from free courses are freely available on YouTube, the ability of instructors to remix is limited.
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Udacity CEO Says MOOC 'Magic Formula' Emerging

8/19/2013
Sebastian Thrun dishes on Udacity's Silicon Valley style and how to make massive open online courses work for more than "the most motivated 1%."
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Software Tells Teacher When Kids Space Out

8/16/2013
ExitTicket, software born in a classroom, can tell a teacher if the kids in the back of the class haven't been paying attention.
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From Jobs Movie To Jobs Case Study

8/14/2013
Ashton Kutcher playing the billionaire dropout gives Degreed an opportunity to showcase educational achievements that take place outside the classroom.
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In Shadow Of MOOCs, Open Education Makes Progress

8/12/2013
Advocates say higher education would be better served by resources that are truly open -- not just free.
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InBloom Educational Data Warehouse Wilts Under Scrutiny

8/8/2013
Cloud repository for student records promises big data results and economies of scale, but has stirred privacy fears.
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Box Targets Education, Will Integrate With Canvas LMS

8/6/2013
Cloud collaboration platform courts universities and K-12 schools, plays up inline grading applications, learning management system tie-ins.
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Udemy Offers Online Course Site In 9 Languages

8/5/2013
Udemy.com now localized for Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Russian and Turkish.
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Pluralsight Buys TrainSignal, Broadens IT Training Lineup

8/5/2013
Pluralsight, which provides online training for software developers, acquires TrainSignal, which offers online IT training. One payoff: better DevOps training for merged developer and operations teams.
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Universities Create Their Own Social Networks For Students

7/31/2013
Facebook goes only so far. Some universities are using enterprise social networks to recruit, engage and retain students.
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NYC's Mouse Corps Gives Students Tech Design Boost

7/31/2013
High school program introduces students to a prized combination of technology, engineering and design skills.
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