New paint colors invented by neural network
Janelle C. Shane, Postcards from the Frontiers of Science, Tumblr, 2017/05/24
Do two people see the same thing when they see the colour blue? Probably not. And if one of them is a computer, almost certainly not. Computers see colours in RGB values, and humans... something else. More...
All That We Share
TV2Danmark, YouTube, 2017/05/24
I've been listening to the recent discussion on white privilege (including a show on CBC as I type). Some of the discussion centers around a worksheet being used in local schools. It makes people uncomfortable, and as has been noted, it's hard to explain white privilege to a broke white person. Race is not of course the only sort of privilege (or lack of privilege) a person can experience. More...
Radford University has a rich history spanning well over a century, and has earned a strong reputation for its use of technology in the learning environment. More...
The educational environment has seen a dramatic shift to reflect the evolution of technology. What if the next step was to take the familiarity of a classroom and turn that into virtual reality. More...
An online search led him to Udacity, a global for-profit educational organisation whose online academy he joined post-class 11. With relatives lending a helping hand, Saha took two Android Developer courses, or nanodegrees, over eight months. More...
A complete guide to implementing lecture capture anywhere on campus, from content considerations to equipment configuration and more. More...
Roosevelt Island, the skinny, two-mile-long strip of land between Manhattan and Queens in the East River, has been home to a prison, a lunatic asylum, a smallpox hospital and a workhouse, among other institutions. More...
InsideTrack announced today a Master Enabling Agreement (MEA) with the California State University (CSU) that provides the university’s 23 campuses access to a broad range of InsideTrack recruitment and retention services proven to enhance student outcomes. More...
The Impact of Computer-Based Testing on Student Attitudes and Behavior
This article describes the development of a proctored computer-based testing facility used to administer tests outside of regular class hours, thus freeing class hours for instruction. A cynic would suggest that this serves mostly to increase the number of hours in a class, thus creating class hours. No matter. More...
Promoting Learning with Personalized Newsletters
There is a lot to like in the learning model adopted by NCR Corporation and described in this article. The good bit starts about a third of the way through with a description of the "MyNCRU Personal Learning News" email newsletter. A sample newsletter is provided as a link in the article; it is well worth following. More...
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