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- The medical home is reform without objections, so far
- Medical HomeThis path is already being broken. At my company, the $56/paycheck credit for not taking a company medical insurance plan has been replaced with a $20 credit IF you participate in a company-sponsored "wellness" program. You have to have a screening on company time - weight, BP,...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Financial Planning, United HealthCare, DUI, public entity, insurance
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Employment after college: Start off low, work your way up
- internshipsafter a couple of years at university, unpaid or low-paid internships can give you interesting experience to put on your resume when you graduate, not to mention references who can attest to your work ethic and good common sense ( to go make coffee for the office when it needs...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, internship, job
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down
- RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- Northern Michigan University Gives High Grades to IBM Cognos Solution
- Northern Michigan University NMU, located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is a dynamic 4-year, public, co-educational university, which offers a wide variety of programs to nearly 9,400 undergraduate and graduate students. It needed to aggregate data from different sources and obtain real-time, consolidated views of HR, finance, and academic information to...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., University Corp., Michigan, IBM Corp., Portals, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Web Technology, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Databases, Enterprise Software, Internet, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Would your students hand over their passwords to Bozeman?
- The first question most people probably asked when this story broke last week was "Where the hell is Bozeman?" As it turns out, I was born in Bozeman, Montana. I didn't stay there long since my dad finished up his graduate work at Montana State University and moved us...
- Tags: Job, Password, Bozeman, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectations
- Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectationsRE: Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectationsI'm a university professor and have been experimenting with the DX since Friday. This device really has the potential to be a powerful and ubiquitous academic tool- it really is possible to read academic PDFs on...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Kindle DX, screen mean, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- Overcoming the laptop wall
- Overcoming the laptop wallSeems fairly simpleIn my opinion, either:Construct the firewall and proxy services of the university properly so that the wireless network that students can connect to is tightly limited on what websites they can access, or potentially only the intranet. Only allow full inet access to hard wired...
- Tags: Firewalls, Notebooks, Web technology, laptop wall, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- So how 'bout them universities?
- So how 'bout them universities?I'll just reply here . . . Not being the social networking nut that most ZDNet authors are, I'll just reply here, thanks. Don't have twitter, not interested.But I am a student, so I've got a few things to say . . ."Enhancing communication and collaboration...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Literacy, Universities, computer science
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Now this is stimulus
- As I sat through a DSL install at one of our schools this morning, I Tweeted my excitement at finally leaving a fractional T1 behind at this particularly remote school. The bandwidth, usually running around 200kbps, has seriously hampered our efforts to roll out e-learning tools, so a 6MBps...
- Tags: School, Australia, 6MBps, E-learning, Training And Certification, Network Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Will the new Kindle DX complicate plagiarism prevention?
- Will the new Kindle DX complicate plagiarism prevention?Swimming upstreamAs with any misconduct, the solution is going to be a matter of hearts and minds rather than control and enforcement.Is technology such as Kindle the real threat / problem, or is it rather our society, our educational structure, which produces students...
- Tags: college kid, plagiarism prevention, new Kindle DX, Kindle DX
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Scitable brings peer-reviewed credibility to the Wikipedia age
- Regular readers will know that I'm actually a pretty big fan of Wikipedia. I think it has as much, if not more of a place in student research than actual encyclopedias did for us Gen-Xers when we were younger: it's a starting point and a great source of background...
- Tags: Student, Scientist, Wikipedia, Scitable, Nature Education, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Dads & Grads: Top 10 laptops for college students, class of '09
- Got a kid who is about to graduate high school and pestering you for a laptop to accompany him or her on the great adventure that is higher education? As if the last 18 years and the next four years of tuition bills isn't enough. ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Student, Battery, HP Pavilion, Intel Core 2 Duo, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Satellite Pro U400, Battery Life, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5
- Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K through 5Benchmarks part 1: Pre-K thr. 5As I read your post, I kept checking back to the intro to make sure I had not misread it, but I had not. It did say pre-K through 5. My overwhelming reaction is that the first three parts of...
- Tags: Blogging, PRODUCTIVITY, Pre-K
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Awesome list of free math books
- I know, I know, this hardly constitutes light reading over Spring Break. However, e-booksdirectory.com features an incredibly useful list of 260 freely downloadable electronic books largely in PDF that could drive entire courses or act as much-need supplements to a standard textbook. The books are primarily...
- Tags: High School, Textbook, E-books, Productivity, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?
- I'm reading The World is Flat for a class I'm taking and finding it remarkably doom and gloom. While the book has been updated with a couple of editions, its context largely remains the 2000-2005 timeframe. Four years, of course, is forever in the digital age,...
- Tags: Education, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Mathematica 7.0.1 (Mac)
- From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wolfram Research, Research & Development, Productivity, Development Tools, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-03-03
- Korean University Upgrades to World-Class 10-Gigabit Network With 3Com Switch 8800 Terabit Switch
- Preparing South Korea for the future is Kyonggi University's heritage and its mission. Founded in 1947 to train kindergarten teachers, the school has grown to include undergraduate and graduate programs ranging from the arts and humanities to architecture and engineering. University needed to upgrade its data infrastructure. Data bottlenecks interfered...
- Tags: University, 3Com Corp., Retail, Channel Management, Payroll Solutions, Storage, Marketing, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Doctor shortage could derail reform
- Doctor shortage could derail reformAre you nuts?Chiropractors may be fine for a sore back but they also think allergies can be treated by spinal manipulation. Nurses do not have the training to prescribe the correct antibiotic for the patient's condition, the correct dose of insulin, the best antihypertensive. ...
- Tags: Financial Planning, Medical Schools, insurance, physician, Doctor shortage, patient
- Discussion threads 2008-12-23
- US gains in math and science ed...Really?
- US gains in math and science ed...Really?RE: US gains in math and science ed...Really?cepedajoe: "History is being rewritten to match politically correct liberal ideals; science is rewritten to ignore facts and evidence and to base itself on theories. Math, well, you ask a high school graduate to complete a basic...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, achievement test, Web site
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
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