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Although Microsoft Office and Google Drive can often be thought of as competing products, they actually can work together in many ways. Google allows you to store all of your Office files in Drive, and then once they are there …

The explosive growth of their AI voice assistants has Google, Apple, and Amazon racing to put your entire smartphone in an earpiece.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90212065/the-future-is-ear-why-hearables-are-finally-techs-next-big-thing…

AI and robotics are, among other things, catalyzing the creation of new majors, minors, and certificate programs.

https://www.ecampusnews.com/featured/featured-on-ecampus-news/what-will-ai-and-robotics-mean-for-higher-education/…

SpeakPipe is a service that I have used and recommended for many years. It’s a service that provides you with the ability to collect voicemail messages through your blog or website.

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/speakpipe-adds-new-landing-pages-for.html…

A new set of features are starting to roll out to the Facebook and Instagram mobile apps on Wednesday to help you better manage how you spend time on the platforms.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/01/technology/facebook-instagram-time-well-spent/index.html…

High-tech cheating has become more difficult to stop than ever before, but our schools must find a way to put an end to it. What steps can schools take to start preventing high-tech cheating before it even happens? Here are …

The Georgia Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Arizona State University last year provided students with Echo Dots, puck-shaped, voice-activated devices programmed to answer campus-specific questions about meal plans and business hours for campus buildings.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Hey-Alexa-Should-We-Bring/244129…

In an experiment, researchers built an algorithmic teacher observer for analyzing the quality of instruction.

https://hechingerreport.org/how-artificial-intelligence-could-help-teachers-do-a-better-job/…

Thanks in huge part to the tireless work and feedback of teachers and students across the world, #MicrosoftEDU is thrilled to announce 10 fresh new features in Teams for the upcoming school year.

https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/08/back-to-school-microsoft-teams-new-features/…

The use of virtual file-sharing platforms like Dropbox, Google Docs, and others has become ubiquitous in business, academic, and other settings. But is your team using such collaborative platforms as effectively as they could be?

https://hbr.org/2018/07/a-study-of-thousands-of-dropbox-projects-reveals-how-successful-teams-collaborate…

As with much of its history the academic library is at a crossroads. The exploding budgets for journal subscriptions which are necessary to the living and breathing research institution is slowly strangling libraries.

https://acrlog.org/2018/08/08/open-access-and-the-benevolence-of-multinational-corporations/…

This article summarizes the process and results of the 2017 pan-Canadian survey on online learning. The main result: “Online learning and distance education were clearly alive and well in Canada in 2017.

https://educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-018-0112-3…