Brazil’s Home-Grown MOOC (Inside Higher Ed) – Veduca has brought MOOCs to Brazil by translating courses into Portuguese. Unique to Veduca there is a certification process that students can complete through the Brazilian Ministry of Education.
Federal Spending Plan Aims to Ease 'Sequester' Pain (Education Week) – A proposed budget deal set to pass Congress on Monday will help relieve some of the financial pinches felt by schools under the sequestration rules.
Smithsonian builds Internet of connected exhibits, specimens, research apps (GCN) – The Smithsonian is working to make much of its digital collection more available to visitors and researchers worldwide.
NHS students to take over social media accounts for state conference (Newark Advocate) – To help promote the coming Ohio Educational Technology Conference students from Newark City Schools will be using social the conference’s social media sites to show how technology is being used in their classrooms
Europe launches RoboEarth: “Wikipedia for Robots” (R&D Magazine) – Designed by a team of European researchers the RoboEarth website will allow researchers to share design and programming information about robots as well as provide a cloud connection for robots to share information between them.
