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Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin Pilot Online Tools To Benefit Community Colleges and K-12 School Districts

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Oct. 1, 2013—Education and technology leaders in eight states are collaborating with Internet2 to extend advanced trust and identity solutions used at the nations top universities to K-12 and community college students, faculty and staff as part of a set of pilots to help ease access to leading technology solutions. Internet2 Full Article

Demo Thursday: Networking 101, Antennas

Gain, loss, direct broadcast satellite (DBS), isotopes, weather, and more make a difference when it comes to antenna designs. Are they really that sensitive? Find out in this Networking101 video. Many people shy away from antenna theory once they see the math in Maxwell’s equations or Lebesgue integration, but this episode will provide the basics […]

How Amazon (and you) might use its private Wi-Fi network

A report that Amazon has tested a wireless network actually sheds new light on plans by satellite communications company Globalstar to extend the Wi-Fi spectrum. TechHive Full Article

Remarks of FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai “Looking Back and Looking Ahead: The FCC and the Path to the Digital Economy

Pittsburgh is a great place to talk about technological innovation. Just yesterday, I visited KDKA, home of the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States way back in 1920. That innovative spirit infuses the Pittsburgh of today. The telestroke program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is saving lives. Tech leaders like Apple […]

FCC Approves Process to Move Forward on E-Rate

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-0 today to release a plan for overhauling the E-rate program for public review, an initial step in what many education advocates hope will produce sweeping upgrades to the technological speed and capabilities of the nation’s schools. Education Week Full Article

How to improve the e-Rate

As the FCC mulls changes to the nation’s school wiring program, here’s a common-sense vision for what we’d like to see eSchool News Full Article

Experience of developing Twitter-based communities of practice in higher education

This article presents the results of a case study of the use of a microblogging tool by a university academic to increase their knowledge and experience of social media for educational purposes. The academic had the role of digital steward in a university and attempted to use microblogging (Twitter) to increase professional contacts within the […]

Obama Promises to Have High-Speed Internet in Most Schools in 5 Years

MOORESVILLE, N.C. — President Obama visited an innovative middle school in central North Carolina on Thursday to demonstrate the Internet-based education programs that he is proposing to make available nationwide. The New York Times Full Article

Open education resources and mobile technology to narrow the learning divide

As the world becomes more digitized, there will be an increasing need to make available learning resources in electronic format for access by information and communication technologies. The question education will face is whether these learning resources will be available for learners to access at no cost or affordable cost so that there will be […]

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