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Whether in high school or college, most of us have experienced the frustration of group work. There often is at least one student who doesn’t pull her weight, leaving the rest to pick up the slack. Then there is that person who takes over. He doesn’t allow anyone else to be heard. Sometimes it happens in […]
OmniSOC, a cyber-intelligence service, will protect five universities in the Big Ten by acting as a “neighborhood watch” for the internet. edscoop
Every year, Internet access via broadband becomes available to millions more Americans, up from 92 percent last year to 94 percent, a recent report shows. Rural and tribal areas are the outliers. The Christian Science Monitor Full Article
About half of the students who fail to graduate college in six years never even make it to their second year, according to Department of Education data. Now, a new app is aiming to help make that college transition more successful for students — by involving their parents. Inside Higher Ed Full Article
Partnership between Casio and stunt producer Steve Wolf also helps students see how math applies to movie-making eSchool News Full Article
The Knowledge Graph is rapidly learning about the world. It promises to transform more than just search. MIT Technology Review Full Article
HTC devices with Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile software will connect customers through high-quality video collaboration in any environment including on the go, at home, at work, in a conference room, or in an immersive theater BARCELONA, Spain, Mobile World Congress 2012 – Feb 28, 2012 : Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in standards-based unified […]
IBM announced Thursday that after five years of work, its researchers have been able to reduce from about one million to 12 the number of atoms required to create a bit of data.SOURCE: McWorldFull Article
Partnership agreement enables customers to continue to benefit from advanced telephony integrationSOURCE: Polycom
This series of annual Year Ahead articles on technology and education began on the eve of what we now know is one of the profound downturns in modern capitalism. When history is written, the impact of the deep economic recession of 2008-2012 will have been pivotal in the shifting balance of economic and political power […]
