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Adapteva, the company that unveiled a $99 parallel-processing supercomputer called Parallella earlier this year, has now announced the Parallella University Program. MoreWorldwide sales of smartphones rose to 51.8 percent to surpass sales of feature phones for the first time in the second quarter of 2013, according to a new report from market research firm Gartner. MoreSmart phone shipments increased by more than 50 percent in the second quarter of 2013, with the top 3 operating systems — Google's Android, Apple's iOS, and Microsoft's Windows Phone — all seeing double-digit gains. MoreCapella University has received sign-off from the United States Department of Education to allow students in two of its degree programs to receive federal financial aid in order to pursue "competency-based" credits in lieu of Carnegie units. More
Carnegie is questioning the value of dismantling the credit hour — a concept created from its own history. The "Carnegie unit," as it's called, has been used for the last 100-plus years as a "near-universal" metric in high school and higher education to measure a student's progress toward graduation. MoreAppalachian State University has launched phase two of an energy efficiency initiative, turning its attention to energy use in lab and non-lab areas within three science buildings on its Boone, NC campus, in hopes of saving one million kilowatt-hours of energy each year. MoreAlabama State University and Tuskegee University are joint recipients of a National Science Foundation grant to fund a three-year program to teach science, technology, engineering, and math courses and information and communication technology to students in Montgomery Public Schools and Macon County Schools. MorePublisher Elsevier has launched a new open journal on gastrointestinal endoscopy that includes videos with each article. MoreThis fall, students housed in a new freshman residence by the University of Texas at Austin will connect to the Internet at speeds about 115 times as fast as the average home connection in the United States. Each user in each room in the Callaway House will be provided with a gigabit Internet amenity service, covered as part of the students' rent. MoreIBM has built out its thousand-strong higher ed partnerships by adding five additional education entities in the United States to its Academic Initiative focused on big data and analytics. The company also announced more than $140,000 in awards to instructors for research and curricula development on big data. MoreHagerstown Community College and Washington County Public Schools in Hagerstown, MD have partnered to launch a new STEMM Technical Middle College. MoreA "smart lock" company has released a programming device for its "smart" keys that lets administrators in charge of access control update credentials via mobile phone. MoreRasmussen, parent company of Rasmussen College, has launched Collegis Education, a technology-based services company that will offer institutions strategies designed to "improve student outcomes, attract and retain new students, as well as manage operating expenses," according to a company release. MoreThe University of Mississippi has begun integrating a new service into its campus safety program that will allow students to communicate more fully with public safety officers in the event of an emergency. MoreAudience and student response systems company Turning Technologies has acquired interactive education technology company eInstruction, in a move that both companies are characterizing as more collaborative partnership than acquisition. MorePortland, OR-based Concordia University has deployed a new cloud-based constituent relationship management system to help manage recruitment as it sees enrollment growing. So far, it is using the platform to recruit freshman, transfer, graduate, and online program students. MoreTo reduce purchasing costs, restructure the procure-to-pay process, and better serve its administrators and staff, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana plans to implement a cloud-based e-procurement and management system. MoreTo keep up with rapid enrollment, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine is adopting a cloud-based, constituent relationship management system to automate admissions, centralize contact management, and improve relationship management with staff at the Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education, a consortium of 27 teaching hospitals throughout the state. More
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