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Breaking Stories in Higher Ed 3/22/2017

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  • Wearables, Netflix Streaming Hit Campus Bandwidth Hard

    For the first year ever, higher ed institutions have reported that they're feeling the squeeze on bandwidth consumption from wearable devices. And colleges and universities have placed TV and video consumption — and specifically Netflix — at the top of the list as the application contributing most to the growth of bandwidth demand on campus.

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  • MIT Designs a Way to 3D Print with Plants

    A project at MIT has succeeded in replacing the common plastics frequently used for 3D printing with cellulose, the same abundantly available fiber that gives plants their structure.

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  • NERD Undertakes Cataloging of 10,000 Ed Researchers

    The National Education Researcher Database, or NERD, as it's known, is a joint project undertaken by the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and Jefferson Education Accelerator. The goal: to spark collaboration among those researchers, school people and education technology entrepreneurs.

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