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With financing from the National Science Foundation, a San Jose State University research team has taken a close look at a high-profile experiment in which the institution offered “augmented” online courses last spring in partnership with the online-learning company Udacity. The team released its long-awaited report late Wednesday, and it contains many more tables than […]
Samsung Electronics unveiled on Wednesday its highly anticipated digital wristwatch that can snap photos, track workouts and use an array of apps — gadgetry that the company hopes will catapult it into a market of smart portable devices that leave cellphones in users’ pockets. The New York Times Full Article
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University will introduce a significant, new wrinkle in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) next year – a two-part, two-semester collaboration offered through Coursera. It begins with Maryland faculty and concludes with Vanderbilt’s. The project demonstrates a collaboration that would be unmanageable outside of a MOOC […]
Apple will include a fingerprint scanner on the high-end iPhone that the company will introduce at a media event tomorrow, widely thought to be called the iPhone 5S, according to The Wall Street Journal. MacRumors Full Article
Training Industry is pleased to announce the 2014 Training Industry Conference & Expo’s Call for Presenters. The goal of the Training Industry Conference & Expo is to help learning leaders obtain the information, insight and tools needed to leverage partnerships for driving performance improvement. Keynote sessions will be large group sessions in the Main Hall […]
The training of Navy pilots will be better in the future, if efforts headed up by Research Psychologist Melissa Walwanis bear fruit. Walwanis is the lead systems integrator for the Office of Naval Research’s Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) Training Fidelity program. Military Training Technology Full Article
Columbia Journalism School, founded a century ago to train generations of reporters, was only 7 years old when Pittsburgh’s KDKA made the first broadcast by a licensed radio station. Its announcement that Warren Harding won the 1920 presidential election set off a cascade of changes in how news was delivered and consumed—and how it would […]
Texas A&M University at Commerce and South Texas College said Thursday that they are working with Pearson Education to open a competency-based, affordable hybrid degree for Texas students by next spring. Wired Campus Full Article
Just days after announcing an expansion of a collaboration with Pearson to bring its adaptive learning technology to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses, Knewton has announced it is also expanding its reach to new parts of the globe. eCampus News Full Article