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Today Apple revealed the best apps and games and the most powerful trends that drove app culture in 2019. Apps help simplify our lives and express our creativity, connect us to friends, family and the world beyond, and of course, have fun. In 2019, apps made their mark by reflecting the zeitgeist of our society […]
The great popularisation of social media at the beginning of the 21st century has led to the production of many empirical studies in an attempt to explore the opportunities these platforms provide for different activities, such as learning and updating for professionals. This study aims to identify and summarise the main characteristics of research into […]
Stanford’s Graduate School of Business conducts classes on a virtual campus, with avatars, soccer fields and a beach. Is it a second coming of Second Life? Inside Higher Ed
Henderson State University wants every student to have a job offer before graduation. A big part of their strategy in approaching that ideal is including career-building skills and tools — like portfolios — in the curriculum. Here, CT learns more about Henderson’s portfolio plans from Chelsea Goza, who is the director of internships in the […]
With the goal of providing students with a new way to engage with learning through storytelling, Google Earth has unveiled a new set of new tools that enable maps to be customized and organized into visual narratives. edscoop
3D4Medical, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of 3D lessons for anatomy education, has been acquired by Elsevier, the company best known for its academic journals. Raidió Teilifís Éireann reports that the deal was worth €46 million (approximately US $50.6 million). EdSurge
WALTHAM, MA, AND MENLO PARK, CA, NOV. 7, 2019—Education Development Center (EDC) and SRI International (SRI) announced the release of their new study Early Science and Engineering: The Impact of The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! on Learning. The study’s goal was to understand the extent to which providing access to media resources focused on critical science […]
Sakai is the most popular US-based open source LMS, part of the Apereo Foundation which supports several open source initiative. Compared with Moodle, it has a smaller user base focused on Higher Ed organizations, which is currently shrinking. Sakai
Minecraft, which hit its 10-year anniversary this year, is currently the second best-sellingvideo game ever—only beat out by Tetris. The game is what’s called a “sandbox,” where players move around freely and use pixelated “blocks” to build whatever they want, from functioning virtual computers to a replica of the entire country of Denmark. Over 100 […]
On Friday, November 1, the Department of Education published its final state authorization for distance education regulations in the Federal Register, The rule draws on the 2016 version of the state authorization regulations, ordered into effect by a federal court decision in May of this year, but contains important changes, notably around the scope of […]
