Daily Digest

Learn more about Harvard's new online classes through the business school, robots helping prepare students for future jobs in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana, and Big Data sparking corporate turf conflicts. Also included is information on the Ohio unemployment rate and issues facing teachers in vocational programming within state prisons

Highlighted today is a new digitalization effort in the Vatican Library, data-related graduate programs, and a community-mentorship program in Cincinnati. Also included is information on a new climate change data website and adaptive technology aimed at curbing student cheating

New updates on the Race to the Top winners, supercomputing and sports collide, and STEM training efforts increase through a $2 million venture. Also included is information about IBM looking into medical treatments, and more!

Our digest today looks at new uses of big data when it comes to fraudulent tax returns, the Ohio Aerospace Institute working on more STEM initiatives throughout the state, and a new bill in the state of Michigan focusing on changing higher education tuition expenditures. 

Learn about new MOOCs at the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio's expansion of the library consortium, colleges seeking autonomy from the state system in PA, and more

The Digest for today highlights the 54,000 new manufacturing jobs added to Ohio's workforce over the past four years, and the $20 billion in education funding contributed from the Ohio Lottery. Also included is an update on Senator Portman's visit to RAMTEC, a vocational school for manufacturing of robots, and national news on the FY215 budget and STEM education along with a study on the job market changing for college graduates. 

Today we feature a lot of information on libraries and the move toward digital content. We provide information on the MoMA library featuring a new library collaboration for guests, a research study showing positive trends at American public libraries, and a library consortium working to loan more e-books. We also feature a new deal between Ohio State and Nationwide Insurance company, and a 3D printer in Amsterdam. 

Included in today's digest is information on Montana linking K-12 transcript data to universities, a new viral education program known as TED-Ed, and Michigan moving records to the cloud. Also featured is information on female minority students targeted from an Engineering outreach program and some information on memory and handwriting. 

Today we share information on Ohio's teen jobless rate, Kasich's new plans for education in his budget proposal and an investment in a Manufacturing campus in central Ohio. Also included is information on grants funding internships and co-op programs funded through the board of regents, and a new computer model that could increase data access speeds by 100x. 

We focus today on a new plan linking unemployment insurance and job training on the federal level, IBM analytics improving auto quality at BMW, and an essay-grading software tool that will save time for teachers. Also included is information on new digital literacy teacher efforts in Colorado school libraries and a STEM Center for Innovation in a Cleveland suburb.