Daily Digest

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!

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.