By Sergiy O. Nesterko. Upon starting my position of Research Fellow at HarvardX, a University wide effort to use technology to transform teaching and learning on-camps and online, I soon realized that I had an unprecedented opportunity—in particular, as a researcher. I had just finished lecturing for Stat 221, a core PhD-level course on computing and visualization in the Harvard Statistics Department. The class brought in 15 academic and business-sponsored partnerships on data-driven challenges. Read more...

Interview Conducted By Marcel Rosenbach. Twenty-five years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. In an interview, he looks back on his creation -- its strengths, the threats it poses and how Edward Snowden's revelations have raised awareness about Internet integrity. 
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, 58, established a place for himself in the history books by creating the World Wide Web. That month, the Briton, who at the time worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), wrote a paper titled "Information Management -- A Proposal." His research led to the development of the first Web browser and, finally, the World Wide Web. Today, Berners-Lee is a professor at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Southhampton in England.
Berners-Lee answered questions from SPIEGEL ONLINE in a Skype conversation on the eve of the Web's anniversary.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: You are considered to be the father of the World Wide Web. When you look at how your idea developed over time, do you view the Web more with pride, disbelief or concern?
Berners-Lee: All of the above. Certainly all the people who have been part the Word Wide Web can be very proud of what has been achieved, and especially about the spirit of collaboration behind this amazing development. That said: All that collaboration and working together is to a certain extent under threat, because the Web has become so powerful, because it has become such an important technology for everyday life and almost everything we do. Therefore there is a strong tendency for governments, big organizations and companies to try to control it. More...

By Julianne Cuba. Online classes definitely make money. But do they educate students as well?
Last semester, I took a course through the University of Pennsylvania. It was an introduction to corporate finance course through the renowned Wharton School. Fortunately, I did not have to commute back and forth from Binghamton to Philadelphia on a daily basis. That would just be absurd. Then how, you ask, did I take a course from the Ivy League institution?
I learned about the principles of finance right in the comfort of my own living room. The class was through Coursera, a for-profit educational technology company that offers massive open online courses, more commonly known as MOOCs. More...

Google is developing a new open source educational tool to make learning on the internet more hands-on. The project is called Oppia and it aims to make it easier for anyone to create interactive learning activities.
Website: Google Open Source Blog.

Par Philippe Menkoué. Consciemment ou non, nous laissons tellement d’informations sur nous sur la toile. Qu’il s’agisse des diverses applications pour smartphones, des réseaux sociaux, des cookies, etc. il est très important de bien lire les conditions d’utilisations avant de les valider, car dans la plupart des cas, nous sommes avertis des risques potentiels que représente la validation de leur usage. Voir l'article...