Wired Campus: “McGraw-Hill is building a mobile-phone platform to teach English and college test preparation to people in India, which the publisher hopes will help it tap into rapidly expanding cellphone use in emerging markets.”
Archive for January, 2011
McGraw-Hill to Provide English Instruction and Test Prep Through Cellphones in India
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
A Digital Library Guru Discusses New Rules on Sharing Scientific Data
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
Wired Campus: “Last week, a significant change went into effect at the National Science Foundation: The agency will now require researchers to submit data-management plans with their grant proposals.”
Biology Professors Use Cloud Computing to Reach Students
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
Wired Campus: “To help reduce the number of dropouts in freshman biology courses, professors at the University at Buffalo have turned to the power of collaboration and cloud computing to build an online teaching tool designed to explain concepts better than a textbook can.”
What Are Your Favorite Classrooms?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
ProfHacker: “What are your favorite classrooms? Which rooms make you look forward to teaching? What do those rooms all have in common?”
Absent Students Want to Attend Traditional Classes via Webcam
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Professors already welcome their guest speakers using this same technology.”
TechSmith Fights Opaque Ed Tech Pricing
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
Inside Higher Ed: “TechSmith puts its pricing for its terrific presentation capture Relay system right on its website.”
13% of US biology teachers advocate creationism: Welcome to 2011
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
ZDNet Education: “What happened to curricular standards? And why the heck are Creationists biology teachers?
Neverware Breathes New Life Into Schools’ Aging Computers
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011 |
ReadWriteWeb: “Schools struggle to keep up with continually changing technology. They simply cannot afford to replace hardware at the rate with which upgrades are released. And as such, the technology infrastructure of most schools is severely lacking. Jonathan Hefter has built something that could solve that.”
