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Expertise hits close to home for Texas A&M professor

Laura Stough has a passion for preparing responders in disaster situations to provide top-notch care for individuals with disabilities and functional needs. In the wake of the Texas wildfires, that passion hit all too close to home.SOURCE: Texas A&MRead the Full Article

FCC Announces Public Testing of First Television White Spaces Database

White spaces are unused spectrum between TV stations and are considered prime real estate because signals in this band travel well, making the band ideally suited for mobile wireless devices. Unlocking this valuable spectrum will open the doors for new industries to arise, create American jobs, and spurr new investment and innovation. SOURCE: FCCRead the […]

9 MIT Media Lab Ideas That Are Changing Lives (or Will Soon)

We may not know what the future holds, but we can take a pretty good guess where it will come from: MIT’s Media Lab. The renowned Cambridge workspace throws imaginative people of different disciplines together and encourages them to learn by building, tinkering, and designing. SOURCE: Atlantic Read the Full Article

E-rate Goes Mobile

The FCC launches pilot program, “Learning On-the-Go”SOURCE: District AdministrationRead the Full Article

Augmented Reality for Learning

It Has Been Shown To Accelerate Comprehension and Increase Engagement For All Ages In Numerous DisciplinesSOURCE: ELEARNINGRead the Full Article

Florida virtual-school options expand

Some worry about costs, quality of online learningSOURCE: Orlando SentinelRead the Full Story

Education’s Guide to Mobile Learning Devices

In this latest STAR (School Technology Action Report), “Education’s Guide to Mobile Devices: Everything You Need to Know About Mobile Tech and Your Schools,” the editors of eSchool Media Inc.—with support from Kaseya—highlight what every school needs to know about the benefits of mobile devices, why they’ve become a game-changer in education, and best practices […]

College students vote to keep their laptops, but jettison pay television, GPS systems

If college students were in a reality television show about off campus life, they would vote to keep their computers, smartphones and televisions while quickly eliminating cable/satellite television, GPS systems and Blu-ray disc players, new research from Ball State University reveals. Source: Ball State UniversityRead the Full Article

Distance Learning Administration Conference 2012

June 3-6, 2012 Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA Visit the Conference Website

Study: College graduates driving increase in bankruptcy filings

College graduates are the fastest-growing group of consumers who have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past five years, according to a new study by a financial nonprofit, which underscores the broad reach of the Great Recession.SOURCE: The Washington PostRead the Full Story