By Joshua Kim. There was a time in the mid 1990s that if you bought a PC that it was delivered in a box with cow markings. Gateway 2000 was the hot build-to-order direct sales PC maker in the 1990s. This was after everyone stopped buying IBM PC’s, before Dell became hot, and a few years before everyone decided that what they really wanted was a MacBook Air. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. My oldest daughter graduated from high school last week. Her MacBook if 4 years old, and is on its last legs. She needs a laptop to bring to college.
What laptop would you recommend for a new college student?
Here are some of her requirements. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. There are two forms of visual storytelling that I've been paying a lot of attention to lately - vlogs and drone videos. I can't stop watching aerial-composed videos...there are so many spectacular shots. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. The report, published in this quarter’s edition of Communication Monographs, explores how witnesses choose to act -- or not act -- in response to cyberbullying. Read more...
By George Williams. Here at ProfHacker, we’ve published several posts over the years about the free and open-source Zotero, which is great tool for managing your research. Yesterday, Zotero announced the release of version 4.0.27, with a focus on “streamlined saving, easier bibliography language selection, and more.” It’s not a massive update (as the version number suggests), but it does simplify some of the key functions provided by Zotero. Read more...
By Andreas Schleicher. When it comes to technology, education seems stuck in the age of chalkboards. But at an international conference on technology in education, held in Qingdao, China, last week, I got the feeling that educators and education ministers might finally be ready to join the technological revolution. Read more...
MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) has deployed Exablox’s OneBlox as its primary storage for local users’ files and images, as well as its target for Veeam backups to protect the lab’s research. More...
By Benjamin Wermund. For the first time in decades, the federal government is sending about the same amount of money to colleges and universities as do the states that support them, according to a new study by the Pew Charitable Trust. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Teaching is not sufficiently valued in higher education and universities should be creating more professional pathways for academics who are talented teachers, according to US digital education expert Larry Johnson. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. At its I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google today announced that it has partnered with Udacity to launch a six-course Android development nanodegree. The idea here is to help developers learn how to write apps for Google’s mobile operating system “the right way” up to the point where they could potentially be hired by Google itself. More...
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