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International Conference on Education, Informatics, and Cybernetics: icEIC 2011

November 29th – December 2nd, 2011 – Orlando, Florida, USAMain Purpose Relationships between Education/Training and Information/Communication Technologies (ICT) are continuously increasing, sometimes in unexpected ways, with original ideas, innovative tools, methodologies and synergies. Education (cognitive development) and training (performance in a specific skill) are different but highly related notions. They have common means to achieve […]

Americans Watched More Than 145 Million PBS Videos Online and On Mobile in June

PBS.org Is the 15th Most Popular Video SitePBS Offers Exclusive Mobile Premiere of NOVA’s “The Fabric of the Cosmos”SOURCE: PBSRead the Press Release

Harvard, Yale, and Bard Back ‘Floating University’ That Showcases Scholars’ Online Lectures

Could you distill your entire field into an hourlong presentation?SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article

From school to work and from work to school: information environments and transferring information literacy practices

Introduction. This study, based in a Scottish secondary school, aimed to examine the views of students who were completing work experience, on their information literacy practices, and the differences they found between the school and workplace information environments while on work experience. The views of guidance teachers were also explored.SOURCE: Information Research Read the Full […]

Focused on the prize: Characteristics of experts in massive multiplayer online games

ABSTRACTThis study is the first large–scale multi–method attempt to empirically examine the characteristics leading to development of expertise in EverQuest II, a popular massively multi–player online role–playing game (MMOs). Benefiting from the unprecedented opportunity of obtaining game log data matched with survey data, the project investigated the relationship between player motivations and in–game behavior, personality […]

New Webinar Offers Teachers Tools to Teach 9/11

I was in sixth grade on September 11, 2001, and when I close my eyes I can still see – clear as if they’re happening now – the events of that day. My physical education teacher breaking the news of the attacks to my class; the obvious fear on the faces of my classmates; even […]

IBM Announces New Innovation Lab Dedicated To Technology Services

ARMONK, N.Y., – 28 Jul 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the creation of the Services Innovation Lab (SIL), a new global lab that will initially comprise about 200 technology experts hand-picked from around the company. The lab will accelerate the expansion of real-time analytics and software automation in both IBM’s technology services offerings and […]

Ending the ‘tyranny of the lecture’

At an educational technology conference in Boston July 27, Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur explained how he uses “peer instruction” to help his students engage in deeper learning than traditional lectures can provide—and he unveiled a brand-new ed-tech service that can help educators take this concept to a whole new level.SOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the […]

Photonic neuron may compute a billion times faster than brain circuits

The name of the project — “photonic neuron” — was catchy enough, but what really caught Mitchell Nahmias’ attention was the opportunity to combine his interests in engineering and neuroscience.SOURCE: Princeton UniversityRead the Full Story

Higher Education and the New Media Reality

As a cultural anthropologist and researcher in the modern discipline of digital ethnography, Michael Wesch likes to ask the big, complex questions: How do we find meaning and significance in the digital age? How is technology affecting society and culture? How are social media changing teaching and learning practices? But as a teacher, an associate […]