Technology
New Jersey College Offers Classroom on a Flash Drive
New Jersey’s Thomas Edison State College has been in the experimentation mode with a new form of course delivery: the flash drive. These solid state memory devices are the size of a house key and fit in one of the USB drives on your computer – a slot that has been standard on all [...]
Center for Digital Education Announces Top Ten Tech-Savvy Community Colleges
Smart colleges at every level are in a hurry to keep up with the latest educational technology advances, and smart education publications are in a hurry to praise those colleges for their efforts. This week, the focus is on community colleges. The votes are in, and the Center for Digital Education and technocentric education magazine [...]
Video Game Degrees are Serious Business
The Kansas City Star recently reviewed the job market for games and gamers, during the course of which the reporter interviewed Entertainment Software Association spokesman Rich Taylor, who made an interesting point: “A generation that has grown up playing video games is entering college…”Schools are responding to that.”
Mr. Taylor backed up his perspective with some [...]
Concordia University Blends Education With Technology for New Masters Program
The landscape of education is changing drastically — where chalkboards and textbooks were once considered all you need, new technology has given way to innovations in the teaching method. One school, Concordia University’s Chicago campus, is harnessing that landscape with an instructional technology degree that is appealing to teachers at every level of instruction.
Concordia [...]
NY College Offers Certificate in Online Videos
The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is one of the sixty four campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The school offers an impressive set of visual communications degrees, stressing the importance of multimedia in all forms of marketing today. Their most recent addition to the multimedia options in their [...]
Saint Paul College Prepares For the Future With Web 2.0 Degrees
Warren Sheaffer is Saint Paul College’s Computer Science Department chair, and he has some big ideas — not least of which is the importance of Web 2.0, a piece of technology that has been dominating modern web use. According to Finance and Commerce, Sheaffer is preparing students well for the future of computing, with several [...]
New Degree Blends Green Construction Practices and Design
The International Academy of Design & Technology in Detroit has announced a new bachelor’s degree program in Construction Management & Design (CMD). A Reuters wire story reports that the school has tapped three academic departments to assemble this course of study that is designed to produce professionals with skills that match the trends in [...]
Clean Energy Generating Job Growth in Two Areas
The Pew Charitable Trusts organization issued a voluminous report in June of this year that does a good job of quantifying the economic impact of the move toward clean energy. Their analysis of growth in the field shows that jobs in the field grew at three times the rate of all job growth between [...]
New Approach to Snaring Cyber Hackers
Computer security software giant Symantec has announced a redesign of some of their computer security products that takes a proactive approach to snaring hackers. The company is the world’s largest manufacturer of anti-virus software and has been at the center of the computer security issue for many years.
Securing personal computers and corporate files has [...]
The New Face of Internet Technology is Green
Once upon a time, the phrase “green degree” might have conjured up images of crunchy eco-awareness courses or preparation for life as a park ranger. This is all well and good for future park rangers and conservationists, but the term never gathered much clout amongst the futuristic, technological crowds. Now, however, that is all about [...]
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