Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Do Smartphones Affect How We Travel?
It’s no secret that we’re becoming more and more reliant on our cell phones. According to Pew Research Center’s Internet Project, 90% […]
Webinar: Innovations in Disseminating Psychological Science
Earlier this month Aime Ballard-Wood, director of publications for the Association for Psychological Science, discussed recent efforts for heightened dissemination of psychological […]
The Devil’s Bargain of Massive Online Learning
Technology may bring efficiencies to higher education, argues David Glance, but only if the expectations of both the suppliers and consumers fundamentally change.
10 Takeaways on the Academy’s Digital Trust Issues
A just-released project asking if the digital tsunami is leaving trust in scholarly communication all wet found that the academy still runs to traditional means to determine reliability.
Can Encouragement from Parents Impact Children’s Interests in Math?
In 2009, President Obama launched the “Educate to Innovate” campaign, which called for a nationwide push to motivate students to reach a […]
Could Smartphones Become a Teaching Tool?
A quick internet search of “smartphone etiquette in class” will give you a fairly straightforward answer: don’t use your phone. But what […]
Online vs. Online On Campus — What’s the Difference?
The line between studying online and studying on campus is increasingly blurry, argues tech thinker David Glance.
Will Technology Kill the University Lecture?
In the case of higher education the discussion of technology’s influence is often superficial, repetitious and disappointing, argues Tom Cochrane of Queensland University of Technology. It’s too often context free, and about being a university student and/or academic.
