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BBC News - Tablets take on Apple's iPad at IFA tech show - 0 views

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    Rivals to the iPad have been unveiled as the IFA tech show gets underway in Berlin. Samsung's Galaxy Tab and Toshiba's Folio 100 run on the Android 2.2 operating system
Chris Hall

Georgia Tech and Udacity roll out massive new low-cost degree program | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "The Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a $7,000 online master's degree to 10,000 new students over the next three years without hiring much more than a handful of new instructors."
Chris Hall

Documents shed light on details of Georgia Tech-Udacity deal | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "The Georgia Institute of Technology's plan to offer a low-cost online master's degree to 10,000 students at once creates what may be a first-of-its-kind template for the evolving role of public universities and corporations"
Chris Hall

Gates Foundation Announces $20 Million Fund to Improve Education with Tech - 0 views

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    Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has announced that his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is launching a $20 million grant designed to get entrepreneurs to develop new technologies to help students obtain their college degrees.
Chris Hall

Education Week: The New Ed-Tech Leader Models by Digital Example - 0 views

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    Getting educators to embrace digital teaching and learning, and to use technology more effectively, requires leading by example.
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Tech-savvy students want real-life lecturers too, study finds - 0 views

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    Universities have been warned not to assume that "digital native" students will embrace all e-learning initiatives, or indeed prefer them to traditional forms of education.
Chris Hall

Times Higher Education - Plagiarism software can be beaten by simple tech tricks - 0 views

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    IT scholar says PDF tweaks allow students' copied work to evade detection. Hannah Fearn reports Technological loopholes allow savvy students to beat academic plagiarism software, an IT expert has warned.
Chris Hall

TeachPaperless: A Paperless Survival Guide to Managing the Occasional Tech Snafu - 0 views

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    Things go wrong. So it's always best to be prepared when they do.
Chris Hall

Academics Build Blog-to-eBook Publishing Tool in One Week - Science and Tech - The Atla... - 0 views

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    Last week, twelve scholars came together at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to participate in the inaugural One Week, One Tool program. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, their mandate was to build some
Chris Hall

Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X | Business Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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    Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October.
Chris Hall

COOLREADERS - ebook ereaders Cooler - 0 views

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    The COOL-ER uses E InkR, a new technology that gives you a screen with a "like paper" display, replicating the experience of reading a book. Using power only for "page turns" means that a single charge lasts for 8000 pages and unlike a book, the electroni
Chris Hall

Tech-Ease! for Windows - 0 views

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    Quick answers to real classroom technology questions. An online service of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse.
Chris Hall

BBC NEWS | Technology | The best of the tech that teaches - 0 views

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    Rory Cellan-Jones at BETT but he's not convinced
Chris Hall

Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser - 0 views

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    The Borg expand further? New browser from Google
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