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- Education
- Teaching concepts and perspectives. Computer education includes computer systems and information systems. Contrast with training.
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- New Live@Edu offerings keep pressure on Google Apps for Education
- Microsoft made a number of major announcements today, all designed to up the ante in its battle for business and educational customers with Google's Apps products. The most important for us? Microsoft announced serious expansions of its Live@Edu services, most of which are based on the now-cheaper Exchange and Sharepoint...
- Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Cloud Computing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- More e-readers - more misconceptions
- my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, E-books, open mind, NPR, Car Talk, education, e-reader, tax, misconception, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Virtual autopsy: Finally a use for the Surface PC
- I've always been a bit skeptical about the idea of a Surface PC. I just haven't seen many interesting use cases in education that wouldn't be served as well or better and more cheaply by an interactive whiteboard or even a tablet PC of some sort. However, new...
- Tags: Education, PC, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- StatPlanet 2.0 (Windows)
- StatPlanet is an advanced interactive data visualization and mapping tool. It can be used to visually explore statistics through highly interactive charts, graphs and maps. StatPlanet comes with data for over 250 indicators for almost all countries. It includes statistics on demography & population, economy & development, education (including quality...
- Tags: Education, Microsoft Windows, Sacmeq, StatPlanet
- Software downloads 2009-10-06
- P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education
- One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed. I can't tell you many of my own friends and extended family members -...
- Tags: Education, P2P, File-sharing, Music, P2P Legislation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?
- As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...
- Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- And now the Singapore Ministry of Education has "gonegoogle"
- Singapore, long considered a model for education and consistently scoring at the top of international rankings, particularly in math and science, announced yesterday that is adopting Google Apps for Education for its 30,000 staff. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Education, Singapore, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Will online education kill the university?
- More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...
- Tags: Harvard, education
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Will online education kill the university?
- If you go to Harvard, how much more are you learning in a second-year calculus class than you might at the University of Massachusetts? Or Podunk State College? It's still second-year calculus. Is there any reason that anyone with the motivation shouldn't take a second-year calculus course at Chris...
- Tags: Education, Calculus, Internet, Leadership, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- Distance learning -Â providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance -Â has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Training, Enrollment, Straighterline, Employee Orientation Training Day, E-learning, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-06
- EPA to schools: Cut energy costs, have more budget for education
- Now that school is back in session across most of the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is challenging administrators to address energy efficiency as part of its Energy Star Challenge pledge. The agency estimates the annual cost of electricity for primary and secondary schools at $8 billion. Wouldn't...
- Tags: Education, School, Energy Efficiency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Gadget Gal's daily deals: Apple iPod touch education discount, Samsung HDTV, Sony Cyber-shot digital camera
- The final week for the free iPod touch education discount, a Samsung 46-inch HDTV, and a Sony Cyber-shot. Here are your daily deals for Tuesday, September 1, straight from the gadget gal: 1. This is the last week for you to get a free iPod touch when...
- Tags: Education, Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Apple Inc., Digital Camera, Apple iPod Touch, Sony Cyber-Shot, Camera, DSC-W290, Digital Music, TVs, Digital Media, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Anthem Education Group: More Bang for the Buck
- Anthem Education Group was paying too much for a third-party service that charged a monthly fee for printer toner with a premium for service calls. The company needed to find a lower-cost solution for supplying, refreshing and supporting printers for its 23 campuses. The company evaluated several managed printing solutions...
- Tags: Education, Dell Computer Corp., Printers, Hardware, Peripherals
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Industry fight against Google hurts education
- So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...
- Tags: Google Inc., education
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Industry fight against Google hurts education
- Everyone knows I'm something of a Google devotee. I don't think it's without reason, though. Google's Education Apps have allowed me to completely transform communication within our district this summer and provide state-of-the-art collaboration tools to teachers for free. Google's Summer of Code puts 1000 students to...
- Tags: Education, Google Inc., Industry, Internet, Litigation, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Giving education a digital makeover
- Change is upon usThank you for posting the video on changing education for our digital future - a fascinating discussion. The children of today need to be helped to learn how to use the ever expanding technology available. To continue to ignore the huge positive impact that technology and access...
- Tags: education
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- Giving education a digital makeover
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford, business executives discuss the future of education publishing in the Digital Age. They talk about the challenges associated with changing the current system and potential solutions. Panelists include Bruce Kingma, associate provost at Syracuse University; Mark Atkinson, CEO of Teachscape; James Shelton, former program...
- Tags: Education, CEO, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Giving education a digital makeover
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford, business executives discuss the future of education publishing in the Digital Age. They talk about the challenges associated with changing the current system and potential solutions. Panelists include Bruce Kingma, associate provost at Syracuse University; Mark Atkinson, CEO of Teachscape; James Shelton, former program...
- Tags: Education, CEO, Online learning, broadband
- Videos 2009-08-05
- Anthem Education Group Saves 60% on Its Printing Costs With Dell Printers
- Anthem Education Group was paying too much for a third-party service that charged a monthly fee for printer toner with a premium for service calls. The company needed to find a lower-cost solution for supplying, refreshing and supporting printers for its 23 campuses. The company evaluated several managed printing solutions...
- Tags: Education, Dell Computer Corp., Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Workflows Power New Courses at Vocational Education Institute
- Box Hill Institute is one of Victoria's leading vocational education providers. Located in Melbourne, its four separate campuses teach approximately 35,000 students each year. The process for accrediting new courses with the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority was highly complex and subject to stringent regulation. To complete this process, the...
- Tags: Education, Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Course, Institute, Content Management, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-08-01
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