Daily Digest - Sept. 23, 2013

Associate Vice President for Policy, OSU/OH-TECH
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Ohio Technology Consortium
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 10:15am

Employers and Community-College Students Aren’t Sold on Online Degrees, Survey Finds (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Community College students feel they learn less and have to work harder for an online education that employers do not highly regard.

General Motors Brings IT Back Home (HPC Wire) General Motors is condensing 23 global data centers to two centralized ones in hopes of cutting their energy consumption by 70%.

Next Steps Weighed on Federal 'Double-Testing' Relief (Education Week) The U.S. Department of Education announced that it will give states the chance to suspend some or all of their current tests in mathematics and English/language arts for the 2013-14 school year if certain conditions are met.

NIST Awards $7.4 Million For Additive Manufacturing Research (Manufacturing.net) The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute was awarded $5 million for research to develop standardized tests for qualifying machine performance and researching properties of materials used in additive manufacturing.

Ohio STEM Jobs On The Rise (The Norwalk Reflector) There are more STEM jobs in Ohio than ever before many of which do not require a college degree. However, to reach the high paying jobs that are still vacant, Ohio must produce more college graduates.

UT pilots new online portfolio system with some colleges (The Independent Collegian) The University of Toledo is piloting an online portfolio system that could make it easier for students to connect with future employers.