Microsoft is ramping up its push to get Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10. If you haven’t already downloaded Windows 10, your computer may do it for you automatically as soon as this week. Microsoft …
12 Awesome Edtech Apps
Build an edtech teaching toolkit that works for you with reliable tools that suit your needs and circumstances. Learning should focus on content, not on figuring out how a tool works. While I’ll probably use 100 tools during any …
Exploring faculty use of Open Educational Resources in B.C. post-secondary institutions
The findings in this report provide a snapshot of the B.C. post-secondary system as a whole, we also explore similarities and differences in OER use among faculty across the three institution types in British Columbia: research-intensive universities, teaching-intensive universities, …
The Ultimate VPN Comparison Chart Featuring More Than 100 VPN Services
Virtual Private Network is a personal network created over the internet that allows your network traffic to pass using a secure and encrypted connection.
http://fossbytes.com/a-guy-just-made-this-giant-comparison-chart-featuring-100-vpn-services/…
4D Printing To Be In Existence Soon
There is a lot to achieve by 3-D printing in front of the world, but it is not keeping the researchers to halt in working from pushing ahead. Brace yourself as 4D printing is here, the researchers are developing the …
MIT Dean Takes Leave to Start New University Without Lectures or Classrooms
Christine Ortiz is taking a leave from her prestigious post as a professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to start a radical, new nonprofit university that she says will have no majors, no lectures, and no …
Over 50 Wonderful Books for Teachers and Educators
We are sharing with you some excellent books we have reviewed in the last few years. These are works guaranteed to stretch your intellectual muscles and elevate you to a state of illumination. We invite you to check them …
A delightful way to teach kids about computers
Presentation of the Week: Visions of the Future
From Bricks to Clicks – The Potential of Data and Analytics in Higher Education
This report undertakes a review of the current data landscape across English higher education institutions, looking at data collections, learning analytics and the current barriers to implementing better data management and data analytics. It then looks ahead to how …
6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2016
Each of these tools can make your teaching more efficient and effective, and your students’ learning deeper and more engaging.
http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/6-ed-tech-tools-to-try-in-2016/…
Some Great Apps to Turn your iPad Into An Interactive Whiteboard
In the collection below, we have curated for you some of the best iPad and Android apps that will enable you to turn your tablet into an interactive whiteboard.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/01/some-great-apps-to-turn-your-ipad-into.html…
10 of The Best Google Docs Add-ons for Teachers
This list is also great for those of you who are new to Google Docs add-ons and are looking for some teacher-tested titles to try out. We invite you to check them out.
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/01/10-of-best-google-docs-add-ons-for-teachers.html…
What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us
Over the past two years, we and our partners at the Open Syllabus Project (based at the American Assembly at Columbia) have collected more than a million syllabuses from university websites. Our hope and expectation is that this tool …
New MOOC: Design and Development of Educational Technology
This project-based course from MIT explores educational technologies and the theories underlying their development through interviews with experts in the field.
https://www.edx.org/course/design-development-educational-mitx-11-132x-0…