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Creativity MOOC Draws 120,000 Students
More than 120,000 people from around the world have signed up for an upcoming massive online open course (MOOC) designed to help students of all disciplines tap into their innate creative potential.
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'Almost Everyone' Actively Trying To Avoid Surveillance Online
Based on the findings of a new survey from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, the vast majority of Americans are actively taking steps to avoid online surveillance by the government or other organizations or individuals.
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Report: Digital Badges Help Learners Demonstrate Accomplishments, Need Documentation for Credibility
Digital badges can help students pursue personal learning pathways and provide a standardized platform for learners to demonstrate their accomplishments, according to a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Mozilla Foundation.
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First STEMx MOOC Takes Place Sept. 19–21
The International Society for Technology in Education will host the 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference, a MOOC dedicated to STEMx educators.
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$2 Million NSF STEP Grant Funds STEM Student Retention Efforts at UC Riverside
University of California, Riverside is receiving about $2 million to support efforts to retain students in science, technology, engineering, and math, especially underrepresented students. The funding is being provided through the National Science Foundation's STEM Talent Expansion Program (STEP).
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Cato Research: States Under-Report Education Spending
According to a new report from the Cato Institute, few state education departments provide financial information that's complete or timely or understandable by the public.
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U Houston Joins OpenMP Consortium
The University of Houston has joined the OpenMP Consortium, a group of research organizations and hardware and software vendors working together to create the OpenMP API specification for shared-memory parallel programming.
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Free Digital Learning Transition MOOC for Educators Starts Sept. 30
The Alliance for Excellent Education and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University have announced a new version of their free Digital Learning Transition massive open online course (MOOC) for educators.
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Workstations on the Rise Amid PC Slump
Despite a sluggish overall PC market, high-end workstations are continuing to experience growth in 2013.
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HP Keeps Lead in Server Market Despite Drop in Shipments
The worldwide server market grew a modest 4 percent in the second quarter of 2013 in terms of unit shipments but declined overall in revenue, according to a new report from market research firm Gartner.
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Mercy College Establishes Intensive STEM Teacher Initiative with $1.5 Million NSF Grant
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded nearly $1.5 million to Mercy College in New York. The college will use the grant to establish the Mercy College Intensive STEM Teacher Initiative (MISTI).
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rSmart Releases Automated Grant Management for Kuali Coeus
rSmart has released rSmart Cloud Express for Kuali Coeus, a new automated grant management product for primarily undergraduate institutions.
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Report: The Future of Collaboration Is Cross-Platform
By 2016, most collaborative technologies will be available across devices, from Web browsers to desktop software to native smart phone and tablet apps, according to a new report.
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