New Approach to Transfer
A group of 16 public institutions in four Western states have agreed to a transfer agreement based on what students know rather than on the courses they have taken or the credits they have earned.
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Phones morph into ‘stun guns’ and ‘tricorders’
Add-ons that turn smartphones into Star Trek-like tricorder medical diagnostic kits
An $8,000 Gag Visa
The new price for a shot at reporting on Nauru.
Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders
Early in her career as a learning specialist, Mary Willingham was in her office when a basketball player at the University of North Carolina walked in looking for help with his classwork.
Yahoo malware enslaves PCs to Bitcoin mining
Adverts on Yahoo's homepage were infected with malware designed to mine the Bitcoin virtual currency, according to security experts.
How a single ‘error’ trips up sustainability progress
Lately, I've been reading books about how humans think, including "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, "Switch" by Chip and Dan Heath, "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink and "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt.
iTunes U.
Lynn University will phase out its learning management system for the next stage of its tablet-centric evolution.
State-owned universities could bar deadly weapons from ‘sensitive areas’
A proposal to limit where people can carry deadly weapons at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities is flawed ...
Inside McDonald’s quest for sustainable beef
Today, McDonald’s announces that it will begin purchasing verified sustainable beef in 2016
Get your Bitcoin in cash: World’s second Bitcoin ATM to open in Hong Kong
The world's second Bitcoin ATM is due to land in Hong Kong by the end of this month, according to U.S. based software company Robocoin.
