By Lindsay McKenzie. Publisher Elsevier accidentally exposed the usernames and passwords of some of its subscribers earlier this month. More...
A Law School Ventures Into Executive Ed
By Lindsay McKenzie. Loyola Law School, in Los Angeles, starts a series of online certificates aimed at business professionals. In a crowded executive education market, will it find a niche. More...
Purdue University bans Netflix, other streaming services for students in academic buildings
When students return from spring break Monday, they will find access to Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, Pandora and other streaming services blocked in academic buildings on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus if they’re using university WiFi. System updates to Apple devices will also be banned. More...
Google partners with NASA and CERN to create massive online exhibit honoring science
Google’s Arts & Culture division, the team behind the viral art-matching selfie trend from last year, has partnered with museums from around the world to create a collection of videos and images dedicated to honoring science and human discovery. More...
GOOGLE LAUNCHES AI PLATFORM THAT LOOKS REMARKABLY LIKE A RASPBERRY PI
Google has promised us new hardware products for machine learning at the edge, and now it’s finally out. The thing you’re going to take away from this is that Google built a Raspberry Pi with machine learning. More...
CREATING AN ONLINE MBA AT A TOP BUSINESS SCHOOL: THE LATEST FROM MICHIGAN ROSS
One of the most ambitious efforts in online education is currently underway at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Since August, the #7 business school in the country has been working to put together an Online MBA degree offering for the fall semester of this year. More...
University students saved $177 million in 2018 using OpenStax OER
University administrators and faculty are increasingly buying in to the idea of open educational resources — encouraging the adoption of free online textbooks on a course-by-course basis. More...
The Best VPN Services for 2019
A VPN, or virtual private network, is one of the smartest ways to protect your online privacy and maintain your data security. We’ve tested scores of them, and these are the best VPN services for Windows. More...
Making it easier to discover datasets – Google releases Google Dataset Search
There are many thousands of data repositories on the web, providing access to millions of datasets; and local and national governments around the world publish their data as well. More...
Learn With Facebook Aims To Train 1 Million People And Small Business Owners By 2020
To accommodate the rapid changes we’re seeing within in the workforce, it is imperative that every person who is either entering the workforce, runs a business, or has been working for decades takes time to become a life-long learner. More...