Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that the California State University (CSU), the largest four-year public university in the United States, has selected the company to implement a secure, system-wide hybrid cloud designed to expand options for services to students, faculty and staff; enhance operational efficiency; and reduce costs. More...
Optimizing for conversions? Don’t rely solely on Google Attribution
While the new Google Attribution leverages data from Google Analytics, that platform alone may not yield the best conversion results. More...
Flywire simplifies compliance
Flywire, a leading provider of international payment and receivables solutions for businesses, schools and healthcare providers, is helping Irish schools comply with a recent government regulation regarding tuition payments being made from outside of Ireland. More...
Robots and streaming goggles UWSP
On the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus there is an entire room aimed at tackling the future. We're not talking about space travel but rather the innovation behind the technology. More...
Apple’s new direction in education: Curriculum
For this school year, Apple’s App Development with Swift curriculum will be offered in more than 30 community colleges across the country. This offering will help students learn to build apps, preparing them for careers in software development and information technology. More...
Videonotes
Videonotes
Nik Peachey, PayHip, Digital Classrooms, 2016/12/05
Nik Peachey has written a new guide to a lovely application distributed around four years ago by Clément Delangue and Arnaud Breton. It allows the user to view a YouTube video and take time-stamped notes in the same environment. More...
Making A Large Wheel Skeleton Clock
Making A Large Wheel Skeleton Clock
Clickspring Chris, Clickspring, YouTube, 2016/12/06
Before the internet you would never ever have seen something like this; the closest you would get would be the furniture-making shows on public television. More...
Introducing Gomix
Reality vs the portrait of EdTech - #edtalk
Reality vs the portrait of EdTech - #edtalk
Dean Groom, Playable, 2016/12/09
Dean Groom comments circumspectly about a phenomenon that has long existed in ed tech, the self-promotion of people in social media by people seeking to become recognized as authorities by dint of claiming ownership over words and inventions, forming self-referential circles of non-competitive entrepreneurs, and domination of various Twitter hastag discussions He writes, "It is a deliberate practice of seeking illusory power and influence based on nothing more than entertainment, names and naming." And it causes real harm. More...
Containers: Are they worth the hype?
Containers: Are they worth the hype?
IDG Connect, 2016/12/01
Not a deep article, but it will give you the basic idea of container tools such as Kubernetes from Google, Swarm from Docker, and CoreOS. Containers are a tye of virtualization. More...