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.
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