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The medical billing and coding programs at these career colleges offer a glimpse into medical billing education across the US. Though the course curriculum varies slightly from school to school, each of these colleges offers a quality learning experience for students entering the field of medical billing.

David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the co-developer of Elite. Over his career his studio has brought us the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Thrillville, Lost Winds, and most recently Kinectimals. In the background, however, Braben has been trying to tackle another problem: getting programming and general learning of how computers work back into schools. Braben argues that education since we entered the 2000s has turned towards ICT which teaches useful skills such as writing documents in a word processor, how to create presentations, and basic computer use skills. But that has replaced more computer science-like skills such as basic programming and understanding the architecture and hardware contained in a computer.

a view of an fully decentralized university

an interesting application for education

Great article about RSS and the future of RSS, but a sentence about half way down caught my eye.  I highlighted it. 

I think the same is true for educators.  We need to be leveraging the power of RSS in blogs, photos video and podcasts to keep daily contact with our students, collegues, etc.  If do not, we are 'simply missing out!

impact social media on higher education