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The City University of New York’s CUNY Academic Commons announced today that it is developing “Commons in a Box,” an open-source software project to help other institutions and groups set up online spaces for their members.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anyone can now track his or her citations via Google Scholar. The free citation service is “a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time,” the company said in an announcement yesterday on the Google Scholar blog. Google announced a limited-release test of the service in July.SOURCE: The Chronicle […]
New open educational resource aims to help stakeholders evaluate and share content, learning strategiesSOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
ARLINGTON, VA, November 10, 2011 – Adding to its lineup of successful children’s educational apps, PBS KIDS today announced the release of the new SUPER WHY Alpha Boost! App for iPhone and iPod touch. The new app, available now on the App Store, is based on SUPER WHY, the award-winning hit preschool series from Out […]
ARLINGTON, VA – October 24, 2011 – PBS announced that the first episode of NOVA’s “The Fabric of the Cosmos” will premiere exclusively on the free PBS apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch beginning today, Monday, October 24, one week before broadcast.SOURCE: PBSRead the Press Release
Athabasca University is presenting a series of five noon-hour webcasts exploring major issues and opportunities presented by OER. SOURCE: Athabasca University Read the Press Release and Access the Links to the Webcasts
A new foundation will promote free software as an alternative to propriety cloud-computing technologies.SOURCE: MIT Technology ReviewRead the Full Article
The premiere will feature an interactive presentation by Communication and Business Professor John Daly about the “Politics of Ideas.” He will examine how good ideas can be put into place and why some ideas never make it that far. In an era in which big ideas in technology, communication and business can alter the landscape […]
Set in the era of bathtub gin, bootleggers and speakeasies, PROHIBITION tells the true story of the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It was called the “Noble Experiment,” but it was in fact one of America’s most notorious civic failures, an object lesson in the challenge of legislating […]
“Our country has pioneered manned space travel and the creation of the Internet. Yet today, our country is lagging behind other countries in leveraging the power of technology in our classrooms,” said Secretary Duncan Friday at the White House launch of a new congressionally created education nonprofit, Digital Promise.SOURCE: US Department of EducationRead the Press […]
