Models of online & flexible learning - The Ed Techie An outline of the work done to develop conceptual models and current practice of how higher education institutions provide content, its delivery, and how the learner's work is recognised across the dimensions of openness and digitalisation - a...
Source: edtechie.net
A Primer on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Educators | Emerging Education Technologies "While many digital technologies have played a role in advancing education, a set of emerging technologies is positioned to bring new advances thanks to the breakthroughs achieved in artificial intelligence...
Source: emergingedtech.com
Greenland ice cores track Roman lead pollution in year-by-year detail: Studying the ice cores may help reconstruct fluctuations in the ancient economy.
Source: arstechnica.com
Smartphone System Detects Food Borne Pathogens |: At Purdue University, a team of engineers and food scientists has developed a smartphone-powered device, and accompanying underlying technology, for detecting food borne pathogenic bacteria.
Source: medgadget.com
Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression [by this I presume...
Source: medgadget.com
Anheuser-Busch pulls millions from controversial NIH alcohol study: Questions about the study could “undermine its lasting credibility,” company said.
Source: arstechnica.com
Frozen Pluto has wind-blown dunes made of methane sand. The same complex forces that make the patterns in our world that we so admire also work in alien worlds but, as in Pluto, on substances that would be truly exotic here on earth.
Source: arstechnica.com
Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins: Optimized algorithms plus cloud-based quantum computers actually work. Classical computers can solve these problems but this shows that quabtum computers can be programmed to do them as well ... but the progress is slow.
Source: arstechnica.com
A Brief History of Intel CPUs, Part 1: The 4004 to the Pentium Pro - ExtremeTech: We dive into the history of Intel CPUs and the x86 architecture. From the very first microprocessor, through to the father of modern CPUs.
Source: extremetech.com
Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing: Mature fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us.
Source: arstechnica.com
20 important takeaways for learning world from Mary Meeker's brilliant tech trends: Mary Meeker’s slide deck has a reputation of being the Delphic Oracle of tech. But, at 294 slides it’s a lot to take in. Don’t worry, I...
Source: blogspot.com
Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney: The sea will keep the data centre cool, but the computers onboard will not be repairable if they break down. An interesting experiment which saves on the enormous cooling costs of data centres and will evaluate the failure rate and performance of the IT. What happens...
Source: bbc.co.uk
Phrase of the day: Elaborative Interrogation - Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true. Evidence suggests it is moderately effective and should be very familiar for anyone with young children in their family. It is one of ten techniques frequently used by learners...
Source: psychologicalscience.org
Understanding Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Gibbs Sampling by coding it from scratch. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a machine-learning technique that by the magic of many (many many) small calculations it can detect patterns in data and cluster documents, for example, into similar topics. ...
Source: github.io
Can a community news platform serve as “technology that protects our minds and replenishes society”? "In 2004, a team of Medill School of Journalism grad students tried to save democracy, newspapers, and local communities. The threat? The internet. Our response? A website called GoSkokie for the...
Source: niemanlab.org
Special Report: Top Tech 2018: Here are some of the technologies you’ll be reading about this year
Source: ieee.org
2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve - Web Courseworks: "The annual Hype Curve evaluation each year is to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to...
Source: webcourseworks.com
The Strange Art of Writing App Release Notes: What makes a great release note, according to the authors
Source: ieee.org
Innovating Pedagogy 2017 - The Ed Techie "The Open University’s annual Innovating Pedagogy report is out." I enjoy these summaries of emerging technologies in education from the Open University. Look out for some of these on a learning programme near you sometime soon. What is really interesting...
Source: edtechie.net
DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord: AlphaGo Zero needed three days to train up in Go; AlphaZero needed just eight hours.
Source: arstechnica.com