Monthly Archives: May 2014

Teaching Channel celebrates teachers

Teaching Channel is a video showcase on the Internet and TV consisting of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America’s schools.

With the help of the Teaching community, their mission is to revolutionize how teachers learn, connect and inspire each other to improve the outcomes for all K-12 students across America.

In order to accomplish this mission, they have set 3 simple goals:

• Build professional learning resources that teachers want;

• Deepen and improve opportunities for teacher learning, and

• Elevate and celebrate teachers in our society.

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The new face of corporate education: e-learning

E-learning that has gained popularity since the year 1999, has seen a tremendous growth. In the past decade, the education sector has seen an immense change in the way of learning. Today, the corporates are also bringing this technology to their employees in order to impart corporate learning within the organization.
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Tablets or smartphones in education?

There are a plethora of reasons why tablets are preferred over Smartphone, cost-benefits, better engagements and social networking possibilities and economy being some of them. Besides, it would to be earthy possible to type  a 10-page thesis on smartphone, but could be easily done in a tablet without much fuss. This paper would lay bare some of the other reasons why students and educators nowadays prefer tablets as a better option when compared to Smartphones in the domain of education.
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2014 Education systems’ ranking by U21

 

Universitas 21 (U21) the leading global network of research universities has conveyed its third annual U21 ranking, that reveals world’s top countries for higher education including additional adjusted results, by taking each country’s level of economic development into account. (more…)

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What students need to remember when moving house?

Moving when at university can be quite a stress and also something that can become a regular occurrence due to the nature of courses. However, this doesn’t mean that it has to be extremely hard and there are a number of ways to make a move easier for students – we’ve compiled a number of tips – take a look.
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The future of IT: facts, careers and benefits

Nowadays, it seems like a career gold is to be found – not in the hills, but in the valley – Silicon Valley, that is!! In our highly dynamic, globalized post-NAFTA economy, it seems that “traditional” IT jobs are not what they used to be. If corporations can outsource it overseas or automate it to a non-unionized robot, they will. No one knows what the future holds, but the general consensus holds that the most exciting, profitable and sustainable jobs in technology fall within three overarching domains. Here’s a quick look at what the best and the brightest minds at the crossroads of engineering and business  should look forward to. (more…)

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