Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Exploring Cloud Computing for Distance Learning

Abstract The use of distance courses in learning is growing exponentially. To better support faculty and students for teaching and learning, distance learning programs need to constantly innovate and optimize their IT infrastructures. The new IT paradigm called “cloud computing” has the potential to transform the way that IT resources are utilized and consumed in […]

Indiana University announces $1.1 million fund establishing world’s largest student prize for software, technology business plan

Building Entrepreneurs in Software and Technology (BEST) competition to be most valuable in the world for students at a universitySOURCE: Indiana UniversityRead the Press Release

White House makes ‘Digital Promise’ to schools

Obama administration officials will draw on expertise of tech industry, higher education to determine how educators can best use technologySOURCE: eSchool News Read 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

International Technology, Education and Development Conference

The 6th International Technology, Education and Development Valencia (Spain)5th, 6th and March 5-7, 2012.Access the Conference Website

Technology Gap

Professors think they are doing a better job with digital tools than their students believe is the case, survey suggests.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article

Tweeting in Class

DENVER — Do Twitter skeptics really believe the popular microblogging service offers no educational value, or are they just afraid of it?For W. Gardner Campbell, director of the Academy of Teaching and Learning at Baylor University, there is no question that fear of straying from the status quo has inhibited the development of Twitter as […]