Wednesday 31 July 2013

Saturday 27 July 2013

Take the lead with a Technology Management Degree

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A technology management program will prepare you for a rewarding career at the forefront of organizational change. This page provides more details.



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Thursday 25 July 2013

Active and Passive Online Identities: how we show up to ourselves and others in the digital world

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When it comes to online or digital identities, we find ourselves in a whole new ballgame. That’s because the digital world gives us a whole new way in which to play with, explore, and share our identities.



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How To Create A Perfect Tweet [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Much has been written about how to write the perfect tweet, from what link shortener to use to how many characters to leave room for retweets.

Now the folks at Neomobile have tried their hand at creating a guide to composing the perfect tweet.



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Free children’s ebooks for ages 3-11 | Oxford Owl

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Discover a range of children’s ebooks online in the Oxford Owl Library. Books include Biff, Chip, Kipper and Floppy, plus Project X and Winnie the Witch.



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Through the MOOC Darkly - Reflections on Life, Learning and the Future of Education

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Saylor Speaker Series with Guest Stephen Downes. Overview of thoughts related to the future of education, looking at the idea of learning as personal develop…



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Curate, Review, Find and Discover The Best Educational Apps with EdShelf

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From Robin Good’s insight:


"EdShelf is a free web service which allows you to curate, review, rate and organize your favorite educational apps as well as to find and discover the ideal ones for your kids or for the next class you need to teach.


Ed apps can be organized into collections which can be further filtered thanks to tags and categories.


You can search for tools as well as browse curated categories, most recent additions and popular ones…"


Read full Robin Good’s insight below.


More info: https://edshelf.com


FAQ: https://edshelf.com/faq




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Where teachers live like kings - TES

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With sky-high salaries compared with cost of living, Luxembourg and South Korea are the best countries to be a teacher, TES research suggests.



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Monday 22 July 2013

The Gulf Between Doctors and Nurse Practitioners

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Nurse practitioners believe that they can lead primary care practices and admit patients to a hospital and that they deserve to earn the same amount as doctors for the same work. Physicians disagree.



Read more at: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/the-gulf-between-doctors-and-nurse-practitioners/




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Op-Ed: iPads Transformed My Special Education Classroom

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Fed up with the sad reality special education students face, Neil Virani changed his students’ lives with technology.



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Anyone Still Listening? Educators Consider Killing the Lecture

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Though some teachers are still adamantly holding onto traditional formal lectures, many others are considering whether this is an ineffective and outdated model that no longer works in the information age.



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Apple is suddenly really interested in health tech

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Apple is suddenly really interested in health tech



And the fitness-tracking wristband seems to be inspiring how the company is thinking about its own wearable device: it’s begun hiring several experts in health tech.




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Sunday 21 July 2013

Why Mobile Learning Is Inevitable - Edudemic

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Mobile learning is here to stay. In fact, it’s going to be one of the only options for learning pretty soon. This new presentation tells you why.



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Thursday 18 July 2013

Infographic: Busting Myths About Online Learning

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The Getting Smart Team is excited to share the latest resource to be added to DLN’s Smart Series collection — a new infographic from Digital Learning Now! entitled “Busting Myths About Online Lea…



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The psychology of online dating - Wired.co.uk

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The psychology of online dating Wired.co.uk Graham Jones, a psychologist specialising in internet psychology, is more positive, seeing a parallel with the internet’s streamlining approach to retail: “Five years ago when people were choosing to buy…



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10 Ways to Understand Buyers Psychology [infographic]

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Every business wants more customers so they timely enhance the product’s, run active marketing campaigns i.e. SEO, social media, email marketing, advertisements, etc. and provides good customer service to become more reachable and reliable for their customers.


Sometimes, marketing fails, web design don’t covert, product doesn’t work out, advertisements don’t provide reliable results, and in simple words customers don’t rely on the product. The “secret" to more sales is as simple as understanding just what your buyer expects (and wants) from your business.


Above are the 10 studies that is taken over at HelpScout. It reveals such insights into the mind of your customers.




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4D printing: buildings that can change over time

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What if structures could adapt shape and form without any input from us? Skylar Tibbits explains how 4D printing could make materials that build themselves.



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"The Healthcare revolution will not be televised"

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My Presentation from Athens looking at 5 things digital can do to revolutionise pharmaceuticals (with a bit of Gil Scott Heron thrown in for good measure)




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Six Free iPad Apps for Making Healthy Choices

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Back to school is the perfect time of year to establish routines and remind students about making healthy choices. Children of all ages should have an understanding of the impact of their decisions r



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15 Authoring Tools For mEnabling Your eLearning For iPads

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List of 15 Authoring Tools For Enabling Your eLearning For iPads. These tools also help you convert your legacy eLearning content for delivery to iPads & tablets.




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Degree of Extraversion in Early Adulthood Predicts Later Well-Being

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Researchers find personality dispositions by the time of early adulthood have an enduring influence on well-being decades later.



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The 30 Best Educational Games for the iPad: Kid’s Edition

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Parents and teachers can download some of the following 30 Best Educational Games for the iPad: Kid’s Edition (RT @cti_powerup: The 30 Best Educational Games for the iPad: Kid’s Edition: http://t.co/4CzKrbaWoB...



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Sunday 14 July 2013

A Map of the Entire Internet, 1977

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Once upon a time, you could draw a map of the known Internet. Here’s what the world of networked computers looked like in 1977 when ARPANET was still just a huge government-funded science project.



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Kangaroo Care Offers Developmental Benefits for Premature Newborns

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Research shows chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother offers benefits beyond bonding and breastfeeding for the tiniest newborns.



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Wielding tablets, toddlers will force change in education

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Children who’ve grown up with individualized learning on their electronic devices will not accept the traditional classroom (Wielding tablets, toddlers will force change in education http://t.co/RKNP9NpwIx)…



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5 Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela

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We’d like to take a break on presentation techniques and share with our viewers a slideshow featuring leadership lessons from former South African President Nel



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Wednesday 3 July 2013

Is Your Business Poised for the New Digital Customer's Journey?

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The sheer proliferation of new online devices and digital consumer channels is pushing leading-edge companies to rethink how they connect with and engage their customers.



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Brain mapping reveals neurological basis of decision-making in rats

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Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how memory recall is linked to decision-making in rats, showing that measurable activity in one part of the brain occurs when rats in a maze are playing out memories that help them decide which way to turn. The more they play out these memories, the more likely they are to find their way correctly to the end of the maze. (…) - by UCSF, ScienceBlog




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Online Accounting Programs

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Find out about on campus and online accounting programs, what the courses are, what employers expect, certification, and what you can earn.



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