The Digest for this Monday highlights interesting articles on Dayton's economic development project being the best in the state, Intel pushing a program to focus on parallel computing modernization, and public higher education in Ohio struggling to restore funding for students to complete their studies. Also featured are articles on STEM education and workforce success and universities looking more into patent buyers as they face financial pressure regarding these patents.
Learn more in today's Digest about a newly released BP supercomputer, the discussion of the "College Credit Plus" program at the University of Toledo, grant funding for improvement of nanoscale additive manufacturing, McGraw-Hill and their digital textbook efforts, Ohio job creation, and a lack of IT for students in schools.
Today's Digest has a collection of articles from Industry Week, the Chronicle, Huffington Post, and more. Featured article subects include new trade policies effecting global manufacturing growth, the "behind-the-scene" attributes when it comes to tuition costs, CACI working on modeling and simulation with a new integration service, and troubles with the Common Core. In addition to these, we have an article on Ohio coming in last in renewable energy use and an exciting article on NASA pursuing 3D video from space!
The articles in today's Daily Digest feature various topics from Northeast Ohio's unemployment rate, to IT priorities when integrating instructional technology in schools. The also features articles on the use of games in education settings and a science grant for Youngstown State University.
Today's Digest features articles on Apple's newest event featuring their upcoming designs, using analytics to track student activities, the EU's supercomputing efforts, Gordon Gee's newest venture with Ohio Senator John Kasich, and NASA's big data efforts. Also featured is information on Columbus City Schools' new school levy.
We start off this week with a Daily Digest featuring a variety of articles pertaining to the interests of those within the Consortia. We have an article featuring a $5 million gift from Honda to Ohio State for engineering research, an article on cloud computing, and another on 3D printing and manufacturing. Also featured is an article on women in engineering professions and K-12 schools purchasing educational technology for their students
Recently I was invited to attend a working session with folks from the White House, Gates Foundation, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Battelle, American Council on Education and others from around the nation. The White House challenged the people involved to create actionable items that could be developed into workable solutions for education. As a participant, I wanted to share a few items of particular interest that were discussed at the conference.
The final digest of the week features articles on experiental learning in public-college systems, technology being incorporated into architecture, the APLU's announcement of universities who have committed to economic engagement and entrepreneurship, and Ohio State's efforts in massive open online courses (MOOCs). Also included are articles on Ohio's unemployment rate, the effects of the shutdown on scientific research and STEM education.
The Daily Digest for this Thursday features articles on Ohio State University's new efforts for promotion of STEM education, Southampton University in the UK using IBM's supercomputing for research, Syracuse University's research being affected by the government shutdown, the woes of the Common Application and the future of the business, and the need for faculty training in technology use.
Today's Daily Digest focuses on a wide variety of subjects including an increase in orders for Airbus that will create manufacturing production in Dayton to boom, Big Data being put to use in central Ohio, Case Western Reserve University developing free online courses, and the potential for sequestration cuts to have further effects (in addition to the shutdown). The Digest also features an article on mobile internet use, the shutdown effects on HPC research, and the debate between traditional and online education!
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