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Happy President's Day! While many are on holiday, we've still got the Daily Digest bright and early for you all. Today's digest features information on closing the gender gap in computer sciences at Harvard University, expanding kindergarten readnig assessments in Ohio, a takeover of Time Warner Cable and how it will reshape the US Pay TV, and encouraging students to train for high-tech manufacturing careers. Also included is information on how the University of Maine will focus on competency-based education rather than using letter grades. 

The first thing I did when the opportunity to write this blog presented itself was to Google National Innovation Day—and what I found made me smile.

National Innovation Day, which is observed annually in the United States every February 16, was created to encourage children and young people to be creative and innovative.

Today's digest focuses on NASA's efforts to join 3D manufacturing efforts, manufacturing job growth prompting efforts in high schools by offering career technical education programs, and a highlight on a successful STEM Education Model and efforts ot promote the model across the nation. Also included is information on schools assisting young readers in Ohio in accordance with the Reading Requirements, and an international Additive Manufacturing project in Quebec. 

Today we focus on Columbus' library system renovations in accordance with the new digital requirements in libraries nationwide, higher education online courses offered by the World Economic Forum and a new proposed state house bill to offer tax credits to STEM degree earners in Ohio. Also included is information on Ohio University keeping a flat four-year tuition cost, and agriculture and natural-resources benefitting from the new Ohio farm bill. 

A number of IT writers and experts have forecasted a high turnover industry-wide among CIOs and their staffs in 2014. ... Many of the same factors behind the corporate shake-ups also have increased the churn at the CIO desks of an unusually higher number of colleges and universities across Ohio. In 2014, we’ll see new faces at many of our member institutions, ...

Still combatting the snowy weather, we bring you another daily digest filled with updates on free community college in Tennessee, Ohio reading proficiency levels for STEM students, and a new pledge from Apple and Microsoft toward education technology. Also included is information on the FCC funding for high-speed internet in schools, and the farm bill creating a second-land grant university in Ohio. 

You might wonder, “What is Digital Learning?” According to Ohio Senate Bill 316, “Digital learning, means learning facilitated by technology that gives students some element of control over time, place, path or pace of learning.” Digital learning encompasses the effective use of technology to empower teachers and students. Digital Learning Day (DLD) allows schools a set time to discuss and share ways to provide every child the opportunity to learn in a robust digital environment every day, with the goal of success in college and a career. It is a day to celebrate and empower teachers, showcase innovative usages of technology and share resources.

Transition and change can be a good thing; this year I will call it evolution. The Ohio Educational Technology Conference (OETC 2014), formerly known as the e-TECH Conference, is emerging as the nation’s top conference for educational technology. Changes this year included the addition of higher ed, greater emphasis on emerging technology and gaming, sessions targeted to instruct rather than just be informative, and changing the design and flow to increase visibility of speakers, sessions and vendors. All these things led to the largest Ohio ed-tech gathering to date.

Today's digest features a wide range of information from job creation in Ohio through the Ohio Tax Authority, development of new manufacturing hubs, and nuclear power station redevelopment. Also included is information on cloud-based analytics in Montreal being used for cost-saving techniques, and the National Association of Manufacturers providing more insight on growth in the US 

Today's digest features information on Representative Tim Ryan's efforts to encourage manufacturing to strengthen the US economy, and an Ohio charter school planned for students to enter into the oil and gas industries. Also included is information on a new online-learning hybrid model university, an online computer science Masters program pilot release, and information on Ohio's drop-out rate and efforts to curb this. Also of interest is information on a new report discussing the decreasing demand for teachers statewide in Ohio. 

Despite today's freezing temperatures, we have the daily digest filled with information on Ohio State's funding for its Big Data program, the Titan supercomputer being used to propel wind turbines, and education reform in Ohio. Also included is news on Ford, Stanford and MIT partnering together to explore research on self-driving cars and the White House's new Big Data privacy review. 

The final digest of the week features auto part manufacturing, AT&T heading up hiring in Ohio, high-school credits, the US Air Force Research Lab's computer system, and Big Data's use throughout Ohio hospitals. Also included is information on an interesting history on CERN's Supercomputing history. 

Watty Piper’s classic message from 1930 in The Little Engine That Could is applicable today, more than eighty years later.  Although the first time the phrase – “I think I can” – was found was in a 1902 Swedish journal, and again soon after, in 1906, in Reverend Charles Wing’s sermon to his Brooklyn congregation that had just paid off the church’s mortgage … most humans believe they are capable of greater achievements.

Today's digest features a variety of information from Brazil's efforts in development of massive open online courses (MOOCs), to an update on the sequester and the new federal spending plan. Also included is information on the Smithsonian working on expanding its digital collection, the upcoming Ohio Educational Technology Conference, and a new website called "RoboEarth" that will allow researchers to share design and programming information about robots. 

What is a Discovery Layer?

In terms familiar to most users, a discovery layer is a Google-like search across all library resources. In library language, a discovery layer is a searchable meta-index of library resources, usually including article-level metadata, e-book metadata, metadata from library catalogs, open access resource metadata, etc., and it includes a means of retrieving resources in the result set through linking technology.

 Today's digest features a wide variety of articles ranging from Ohio's casino-tax revenue and its effects on cities and school districts, to start-ups using research funds from Ohio State. Also included is information on a new degree program focusing on the use of unmanned aircrafts, supercomputing efforts in Japan venturing into the human brain activity research, and 3D computing used to develop fighter jets. 

We are back kicking off another week with the Daily Digest--featuring articles on Big Data at MIT, NVIDIA's automatic cars and a new algorithm providing genomes and internet sites with greater efficiency. Also featured is information on STEM growth in Ohio through a new house bill and JobsOhio providing $250,000 for a program to help college students pay for education while working for tuition assistance. 

Today's Digest focuses on a variety of information revolving around the big data development front, Ohio's focus on funding public-works projects, STEM in higher education being funded through grant opportunities, and US manufacturing exports. Also included is information on a new venture capital firm helping to fund start-up companies in the Mid-West

In anticipation of National Trivia Day, celebrated on Jan. 4 of each year, I asked for some trivia questions from my few Ohio Technology Consortium colleagues who happened to be in the office over the holidays. As usual, they didn’t disappoint. First, a selection of their trivia questions:

Happy New Year! The first digest of the year features stories on STEM assistance at Ohio universities, drone testing at US institutions, the impact of sequestration on various branches of government, higher education news for Northeast Ohio, and multi-scale simulation benefits. 

With just two days left in 2013, we focus today's Daily Digest on recent news featuring NASA's exploration developments, publishing associations fighting against illegitimate open-access journals, and the future for HPC systems. Also featured is information on Columbus, Ohio being named the driver of Ohio's economic recovery and the President's Council on Advisors on Science  & Technology making the case for Massive Open Online Courses to President Obama. 

The final digest for this week features information on HPC power and energy saving techniques, supercomputing and molecular research, computer software developments for university exams, and a global comparison of online learning techniques. Also included is information on an effort to gain funding for a data and cybersecurity center in central Ohio.

We will be taking a week-long break from the Daily Digest due to the holidays. Please stay tuned for new digest entries around the New Year!

The digest for this Wednesday features information on the oil and gas energy boom in relation to manufacturing in the US, NASA using new tools for climate and earth science research, and US education companies focusing on expanding operations in China. Also included is information on building a STEM pipeline through high school education, along with information on the approval of $12.8 million for funding in biomedical technology research in Ohio universities. 

Today's digest highlights recent news on 3D printing efforts when it comes to biomedical engineering of bone implants. Also included is information on technology implementation in Ohio classrooms to help track student performance, companies and colleges partnering to increase the skilled workforce, a new R&D center in Dayton, and schools focusing on teaching computer coding.