Today's news focuses on Ohio's Straight-A-Funding programs, IBM's Watson supercomputer, digital accessibility among higher ed students, Brazilian broadband deals, Microsoft's research lab closure, CincyTech bringing in $420 million in business funding, and Cray's viewpoint on analytics and simulation.
Today's highlights include UNLV's new supercomputer, a new technology facility on the University of Dayton's campus, impact vs. participation amongst community college students, a Massachusetts' library renaissance, a Northwest Ohio manufacturing center, Ohio solar energy, and Ohio's learning standards debate.
Today's Digest highlights information on Cray's new supercomputer contract with Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, Lockheed Martin's donation of $500,000 toward women in STEM education, Harvard's computer science course popularity, a potential "Federal Robotics Commission" , and the battle between campus bookstores and online booksellers
In today's Digest, we focus on how one library is adapting to the digital world, a report on higher education creating a boost in need-based aid rewards, startups in the manufacturing business, technology in schools, the Big Data sector, and New York's excelleration in the manufacturing sector
Today we highlight news on a new cloud computing platform from Google, the new VP and CTO at a lead supercomputing company, online learning platforms, changes to Ohio's community college funding, and Ohio school district report cards.
Today we look at new K12 school standards in Colorado, digitalization of books in the EU, and the University of California's new solar energy purchase. Also included is information on an employee focused online learning platform, technologies driving data analytics, and a new robotics facility coming to Cininnati.
Highlighted in today's digest is information on Sinclair Community College taking the lead in drone technology research, Ohio's energy companies and the construction of a substation to improve services, along with an update on the SQL use in Big Data debate.
Today we focus on topics regarding higher education, education technology, STEM learning, the broadband public-utility debate, and issues surrounding Google's dominance in the tech atmosphere
Learn more about today's state, nationwide and international technology news. Today we feature information on the University of Arizona's new supercomputer, US economy job growth predictions and outcomes, STEM education and AP science courses, and more!
Congratulations go out today to Ohio State’s Venturi Buckeye Bullet team, which today announced that it has successfully nailed down yet another international land speed record.
In this Friday's Daily Digest we will be examining Georgia Tech's online master's program that has been modeled after MOOCs, new regulations taking place in California regarding autonomous vehicles, new projections on the continued growth of the e-learning industry, L.A. school's decision to stop purchasing iPads from Apple, and Washington D.C.'s unique approach to helping their homeless library patrons.
The Digest for today highlights an unprecedented lawsuit being filed against the Education of Department, a new look at the research around how students ask for help in the classroom, a Chinese supercomputing project aimed at improving urban planning, a set of new partnerships between two Cleveland universities and foriegn colleges, and a look into the potential use of the internet of things by the Postal Service.
In today's Digest we look at the impact that the economic recovery is having on state K-12 education budgets, research being done at Utah State in how autonomous cars can be hacked and the potential impact of these threats, a new report looking at the state of additive manufacturing in the U.S., recent studies that find that economic diversity among top teir colleges is still stagnant, and a new Amazon subsidiary that will be investing $1.1 billion in central Ohio to create a new datacenter.
In today's Daily Digest we will be highlighting Teach for America's third year of operating in Ohio, a new model of higher education for the U.S. that encorporates apprenticeships, renewel of the debate over creationism being taught in schools, a new NSF project to advance cloud computing, and the addition of a Makerspace to Youngstown, Ohio.
We begin the week with a look at new legislation working its way through Congress that would have major impacts on higher education, improved ACT scores and what they mean for the state of Tennessee, Gov. Kasich's pledged support for the Common Core in Ohio, the future of MOOCs and their ability to remain free to use, and the use of the San Diego Supercomputer Center to help fight forest fires.
On this Friday we will be discussing the apparently low rate of students that transfer their credits when they switch univerisites, a new grant from America Makes to further 3D printing research, a grant from the Ohio Department of Education aimed at helping support literacy programs, the opening debates over whether to withdraw Ohio from the Common Core standards, and a look at the differences between the number of students taking humanities versus science coruses.
In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt established National Aviation Day, placing it in on the calendar to coincide with the birthday of Orville Wright on August 19. Orville and his brother Wilbur designed and built the Wright Flyer and in 1903 used it to perform “the world’s first controlled powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.”
In today's Digest we will be looking at the impact that the Affordable Health Care Act is having on the status of student employees, the Columbus library system's use of small 'express' libraries to help reach underserved areas, the July job figures for Ohio's economy, the preperation many campuses are taking for receiving students from Ebola affected countries, and the expansion of Hoopla streaming service to another major library.
As we start the week the Daily Digest highlights a new partnership between Columbus State and the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries that will include a CSCC room at 10 new or renovated libraries, a new nonprofit that has begun reviewing Common Core based textbooks to assess their content and alignment, changes to the way Ohio k-12 school days are measured, a look at the participation rate that shows MOOCs to be more effective than some people realized, and a discussion of how to better frame aspects of education policy to make the debate easier for people to understand and relate to.
We end this week with a look at the current advantage that libraries have over tech companies in the realm of e-book rentals, the new graduation requirements that incoming 9th graders will have to face, a new STEM focused university and supercomputer center in Florida, the high rate of delinquency for the most common type of federal student loan, and a call from manufacturing leaders for Congress to address the issue of currency manipulation being practiced by a number of foriegn countries.
Today we delve into the use of big data by the Centers for Medicaire and Medicaid Services to try and improve health care costs, Apple's recent diversity report and the growing attention big tech firms are paying to their workforce diversity, the disparity in high speed internet access between urban and rural library systems, strong economic indicators for the U.S., and a growing number of free online academic journals that are challenging the standard subscription based journals.
In today's Daily Digest we will be examining a growing debate over some key words in Ohio's Constitution regarding school funding, a new tool developed by Google to help manage their databases, a start-up supercomputer company that is planning to revolutionize computer processing with an optical processor, the growing focus on education policy in part thanks to some celebrities, and a team from MIT that has analyzed hundreds of hours of MOOC videos to learn what makes an engaging video lecture.
In today's Daily Digest we will be highlighting Denver City Schools move to invest $7 million in developing new STEM career classes for its high schools, new data that shows that white students will no longer be the majority in public schools, a data analytics tool that was able to spot the Ebola epidemic prior to the WHO announcement of the outbreak, the mayor of Milwaukee's push to invest in building a strong library system for the city, and an unusual library storage system in Australia that relies on robots to retrieve and manage the books.
We begin this week by discussing a set of rule changes from the Dept. of Education aimed at easing restrictions on student loans, a new law that will require states to offer in state tuition to veterans regardless of how long they have lived in the state, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush team up to talk about the importance of providing women worldwide with education, manufacturing companies are facing a shortage of STEM trained workers, and a new computer chip offers the power of a supercomputer in the size of a postage stamp thanks to a unique process.
We end this week with a review of the low percentage of Ohio school districts that passed their proposed levies in the recent August special election, an announcement from NASA that it is near completion of a 3D printed telescope, a survey that shows mixed opinions regarding how robots are affecting people's jobs, a report that has found that Ohio students in the Appalachian counties are falling behind their peers in the rest of the state, and with the school year aproaching a number of districts are figuring out how to handle the nearly 50,000 immigrant students who have recently arrived in the U.S.
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