Mobile tech forecast to fuel new Digital Industrial Economy
Worldwide IT spending will peak at $3.8 trillion in 2014, marking the beginning of the Digital Industrial Economy era , according to analyst firm, Gartner. PC World Full Article
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The 15 Countries Where The Most Young People Are Online
What did children do before computers? If the future goes the way of babies with iPads, it’s a question we might be asking ourselves soon. But if you’re between 15 and 24 years old and live in the United States, there’s already a good chance you grew up playing around with MS Paint. FastC@mpany Full […]
Book Review: The Handbook of Mobile Learning By Zane L. Berge, and Lin Y. Muilenburg
Berge, Z. L., and Muilenburg, L. (2013). Handbook of mobile learning. New York, NY: Routledge. Reviewed by Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder, Distance-Educator.com For further information and ordering this book go the the publisher’s website. One of the most promising and exciting technologies that has emerged in the last decade is mobile learning. With the […]
eLearning Guild Research: What Authoring Tool Do You Want to Buy?
What percentage of your job is authoring or developing eLearning? If you’re anything like the 1,055 respondents of our 2013 Authoring Tools research report, you spend from 10% to 50% of your time developing (authoring) eLearning (Figure 1) and you have been developing eLearning for between a year (or less) and six years. Learning Solutions […]
Online Application Woes Make Students Anxious and Put Colleges Behind Schedule
With early admission deadlines looming for hundreds of thousands of students, the new version of the online Common Application shared by more than 500 colleges and universities has been plagued by numerous malfunctions, alarming students and parents and putting admissions offices weeks behind schedule The New York Times Full Story
Critics Say Sting on Open-Access Journals Misses Larger Point
Perhaps months from now, when the dust settles and academics really look back at it, they’ll find some hard lessons in the elaborate Science magazine exposé this week by the journalist John Bohannon. Wired Campus Full Article
How to Build a University in 7 Months
When Florida Governor Rick Scott on April 22 signed Senate Bill 1076, he tasked a “preeminent state research university to establish an institute for online learning” that would “offer high-quality, fully online baccalaureate degree programs” by January 2014. A few weeks later, the Florida Board of Governors granted the University of Florida that designation. Inside […]
European Commission launches ‘Opening up Education’ and reveals the programme’s new webportal
You may all well be aware of the elearningeuropa.info portal of the European Commission. Well, the portal is no more, it is renewed, reviewed and relaunched with modified objectives and services supporting the launch of the ‘Opening up Education’ programme, an action plan to tackle digital problems of schools and universities. The new website, Open […]
Demo Thursday: Networking 101, Antennas
Gain, loss, direct broadcast satellite (DBS), isotopes, weather, and more make a difference when it comes to antenna designs. Are they really that sensitive? Find out in this Networking101 video. Many people shy away from antenna theory once they see the math in Maxwell’s equations or Lebesgue integration, but this episode will provide the basics […]
What Apple’s M7 Motion-Sensing Chip Could Do
Apple’s always-on motion-sensing M7 chip points the way to an era of mobile gesture-recognition and “ambient intelligence.” MIT Technology Review Full Article