A 2014 report published by the World Intellectual Property Organization revealed that approximately 2.1 million patents were being filed each year, a number that has continued to grow exponentially in the last three years. More...
24 octobre 2017
24 octobre 2017
Education Department announces college prep grants
The U.S. Department of Education is awarding a second round of funding for programs that help low-income students aspire to attend college. The awards announced this week go to programs whose applications were initially rejected because of formatting errors such as not being double-spaced or using the wrong font. More...
24 octobre 2017
With DACA’s uncertain future, how will states address access to higher ed?
DACA provides legal protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. without documentation as children (often referred to as “Dreamers”). Applicants must meet specific requirements to be eligible for the program. More...
24 octobre 2017
Don’t panic, liberal arts majors. The tech world wants you.
At the present moment, it is only liberal arts majors who have to wonder whether all of the articles and books promoting the marketability of their chosen discipline should make them more or less uneasy about the future. More...
24 octobre 2017
Student loan company accused of mismanaging debt forgiveness program
One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness programs for public service workers, significantly raising repayment costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by the attorney general of Massachusetts. More...
24 octobre 2017
Faced with the domestic terrorism at Charlottesville, Betsy DeVos fails another test
President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos didn’t whole-heartedly renounce white supremacy last weekend, but teachers must. James Alex Fields Jr., the driver who allegedly plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters on Saturday, Aug. 12, killing one and injuring at least a dozen more at the “Unite the Right” march, had spouted Nazi ideology in high school, according to Derek Weimer, Fields’ former history teacher. More...
24 octobre 2017
Limitless learning plenary #OEB16 on owning learning
Limitless learning plenary #OEB16 on owning learning
Inge de Waard, Ignatia Webs, 2016/12/05
Good summary of the Friday plenary at Online Educa Berlin. More...
24 octobre 2017
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...
24 octobre 2017
Inside IFTTT's Plan For A More Harmonious Internet
Inside IFTTT's Plan For A More Harmonious Internet
Jared Newman, Fast Company, 2016/12/05
I've been using IFTTT as a useful tool to connect my various social network services for several years now. As it migrates from a free service to something more self-sustaining, though, IFTTT is shifting its focus. It remains an open question whether it will continue to be useful. More...
24 octobre 2017
Experimenting with alternative social networks
Experimenting with alternative social networks
D’Arcy Norman, D’Arcy Norman Dot Net, 2016/12/05
As readers know, I dropped out of Facebook at the end of the summer. It felt lonely but it was a good move - the people who were missing my posts on Facebook came back, and viewership on downes.ca went from the 25K per month it had averaged to more like 40K per month. More...
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