Surgeon completes online Edinburgh University course from Africa
(BBC News) – A surgical trainee from Mali recently completed is doctorate degree from Edinburgh University completely online. This feat highlights the potential benefits of online courses, especially for underdeveloped nations.
Reaching Out to a Tutor in an Online Class (U.S. News and World Report) – A recent report found that students taking online courses that sought out some form of online tutoring achieved greater academic performance. This is made possible by the wide range of online tutoring sources available.
Big Ag, Big Data and big changes for US farmers (News-sentinel.com) – Monsanto has recently purchased a big data firm for $930 million in the hope that it will be able to offer more personalized crop insurance and seed sales to farmers on a global scale.
IBM introduces Watson to the public sector cloud (GCN) – IBM has announced that it plans to offer the use of the Watson computer to firms via a cloud based format. This opens up a number of potential uses for the powerful Watson platform.
Global Bitcoin Computing Power Now 256 Times Faster Than Top 500 Supercomputers, Combined! (Forbes) – A recent report found that the computing power being applied to mining BitCoins globally is running at many times the speed of the most powerful supercomputers out there. This data should be taken with a number of factors in mind however.
