Month: June 2014

OpenEd & OER

A Goal for Google and Carnegie Mellon´s MOOC Research?

Under the Google Focused Research Award program, Carnegie Melon University received a two-year grant for research on and development of MOOCs platforms “intelligent enough to mimic the traditional classroom experience” (from the Chronicle Higher Education article: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/google-will-finance-carnegie-mellons-mooc-research/53521) It remains unclear[…]

Misc.

Smart Trash: what your trash says about you

It is already a fact: with many products being tagged in the production process to monitor where they go or what trash can they finish in, our trash has officially become another piece of the[…]

Rankings

More of Rankings

Guardian University League Tables   The UK-based Guardian University League Tables unveiled this monday the 2014 edition, with University of Cambridge in the top for fourth time in a row. These rankings aim to provide[…]