It’s no longer enough to simply offer on-demand music as part of the value proposition for music streaming services – you have to enable discovery of new tunes and make recommendations, too.
How Fender Is Reinventing Online Guitar Lessons For The Age Of Distraction
Fender Play is a new 4K video subscription service designed to teach guitar in bite-sized, song-based tutorials that put YouTube lessons to shame.
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop is great, once you upgrade Windows 10 S
The Surface Laptop is really nice — in fact, it’s quite possibly the best piece of hardware to carry the Surface name. But for some reason Microsoft saw fit to use the product to showcase Windows 10 S, a …
How schools are tracking students using their mobile phones
Australian schools are tracking what students do on their mobile phones using technology that can also disable their cameras. In a bid to protect students from pornography, predators and other online dangers, some schools are turning to technology that …
Google not, learn not: why searching can sometimes be better than knowing
“Only memorize the things you use every day. Everything else, just memorize how to look it up.”
10 Ways Edtech Tools Can Change The Way You Teach
For many education professionals, the thought of implementing technology into the classroom can often be a worry. Not wanting to offer learners new distractions that will hinder their progress, teachers are wary of using education technology. However, if implemented …
OpenStax Launches Learning Platform
The Rice University-based free textbook publisher is the latest in the industry to pair its own course content with an online learning platform.
Why our screens make us less happy?
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Presentation of the Week: Rethinking Literacy for All Learners: Reading, Writing, and Communication for Today
Managing All of Your Email
Tired of digging through your email on mobile and desktop, trying to make sense of it all? Take a look at a few mobile device apps and organizers.
Encrypt all the webpages: Let’s Encrypt to offer wildcard certificates for free
Upgrade will allow even more webpages to be protected by HTTPS.
A Compilation of the Best Content Creation Strategies from 42 Experts
Below are expert advice from some of the top professionals in their respective fields with a thing or two to say about writing useful content.
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AI is Making it Extremely Easy for Students to Cheat
Wolfram|Alpha uses natural language processing technology, part of the AI family, to provide students with an academic shortcut that is faster than a tutor, more reliable than copying off of friends, and much easier than figuring out a solution …
Study Finds Students Need More Navigable Computer-Based Exams
Online test success is one part preparation and one part functionality.
Google is funding a new software project that will automate writing local news
Google is awarding the Press Association, a large British news agency, $805,000 to build software to automate the writing of 30,000 local stories a month.