The Digest for today looks at the increasing amount of time students spend taking and preparing for standardized tests, a series of new online courses to be taught by the Smithsonian Institute, a new supercomputer that will be owned and operated by a collaboration of colleges and private companies, Google's pledge to stop scanning student emails for advertising purposes, and an open letter from renewable energy companies discussing their impact on the state's economy.
There are several reasons why an organization choses to move forward with using virtual machines. The driving force in the decision process for many organizations is money – or more specifically – the expected savings of money. Unfortunately, if this is the sole decision point for using virtual machines, organizations will lose out on the benefits of virtual machines and probably not save any money in the process.
In today's Digest we look at some of the key findings from the White House's Big Data and Privacy report and what these findings might mean for big data. We also look at a new Ohio bill that will provide clearer standards for how to award college credit to returning veterans, the impact that the improving economy is having on student loans, an international robotics competition for students of all ages, and some best practices for keeping online students engaged in thier coursework.
South Carolina is following Indiana's lead and is working on a bill that will remove the Common Core standards over the next year. In NYC the MOOC providor Coursera is partnering with the library system to provide space for MOOC discussion groups, A major diversity gap between teachers and students has been found, a Northeast Ohio school district is creating a new STEM project based school, and Race to the Top's impact on education is looked it.
The digest for today we examine a new way at looking at MOOCs low completion rates and how these low figures may not represent how effective MOOCs actualy are, a new grant program for minority students pursueing STEM degrees that is funded by the Air Force, the addition of an HPC cluster to help researchers at Rutgers University, the role that major industrial firms are playing in the growth of additive manufacturing, and a new breakthrough in the quest to develop the first fully functional quantum computer.
The digest for today we look at a new law in Georgia that will provide full tuition coverage for some students at technical colleges, Google's progress towards developing a fully autonomous vehical, a new hands on science lab at the University of Maryland that will also serve as a research lab for the Howard Hughes Medical Center, a new supercomputer contract between Cray Inc. and the Dept. of Energy, and considerations one should take when looking at online tutoring.
The digest for today examines the potential impacts that big data could have on the poor, a look at what colleges can do to improve the way STEM subjects are taught, a study that shows why students have not adopted tablets as the industry had predicted, the addition of a job application kiosk to the Queen's library, and a $30 million investment from Chevron to improve project based STEM education.
The digest for today highlights the use of big data by small businesses to improve customer loyalty, the collapse of a major ed-tech start-up, a festival that celebrates science and engineering achievements, a scholarhip program funded by the Cuyahoga County Council, and a panels thoughts on how to improve STEM education at the middle school level.
The digest for today look at efforts by the U.S. Dept. of Education to improve teacher training, the rising cost of tuition at Ohio's Public Universities, efforts to improve the efficiency of computers, the increased oversight of charter schools in Ohio, and the issue of attrition in STEM degree programs
Today we highlight the impact of manufacturing hubs on education, efforts by tech companies to place veterans in STEM careers, the importance of expanding computer science courses in high school, and the creation of a new STEM education center at the Museum of Flight
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