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Breaking Stories in Higher Ed 8/29/2017

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  • Report: Student Loan Debt Reaches $1.4 Trillion

    Student loan debt in the United States has grown 149 percent over the last decade to reach $1.4 trillion, according to a new report. Over the same period, the average student loan debt per person went up 62 percent.

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  • Most Faculty Say Technology Has Made Their Jobs Easier

    Our 2017 Teaching with Technology Survey found that faculty have a positive outlook about technology's impact on their work, teaching effectiveness, student learning and more.

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  • Teaching Robots to Learn Teaches the Students Too

    Typically, students work with robots that have been pre-programmed or program robots to undertake simple tasks for which the outcome is known. But a research project in Israel came up with a way for high schoolers and first-year engineering students to learn robot intelligence technologies by engaging them in teaching robots to learn.

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  • Microsoft Buys HPC Cloud Expert Cycle Computing

    When a project undertaken by NASA and a research team at the University of Minnesota to baseline expected carbon dioxide uptake by trees on the south side of the Sahara desert ran out of elbow room within a private cloud maintained by NASA, the two institutions took the work to Cycle Computing.

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