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Programming isn’t only for programmers. But as we move... where technology controls more and more of our lives, it... that’s virtually guaranteed to help you get a job. A g... Forbes a few weeks ago referred to the new world of Deve... world in wh

Programming should take pride of place in our schools
If we don't change the way ICT is thought about and taug ...
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John Naughton
... owerPoint presentations will look like Dead Sea scrolls.

Raspberry Pi device will 'reboot computing in schools'
A tiny computer called Raspberry Pi and costing £20 is ...

Research shows that our intuition is wrong. We can focus... that we can’t may not be a phantom. Paying attention r... ability but desire. Technology may snuff out our desire ...

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

SocialLearn is an experimental online learning space on ... The latest evolution in virtual learning, SocialLearn co... networking, Open University and wider web resources and ...
Developed in response to feedback about the need for inf ...
The platfor

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their int... Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript. ®.. that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The... article linked below doesn’t address any other languag...
The SIGCSE-

Stanford’s first interdisciplinary computer science an... has left both students and teachers hungry for more.

Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate.
Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students.

Technology has a plethora of uses and has long been a u... students of today are adept at using technology so utili... education is beneficial. This infographic examines how t... useful tool and can be a useful aid in the learning process.

test scores in my visual-communication course have gone ... laptops the boot a year ago. Now I coach students on how... longhand to help those who have not used that muscle muc... convinced that while laptops have a lot of good uses in ... taking is n

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... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

The British universities, Oxford and Cambridge included,... from a system of state control that is undermining the o... which their worldwide reputation depends: the caliber of... scholarship.

The Computing at School Working Group (CAS) aims to prom... Computing at school. CAS was born out of our excitement ... discipline, combined with a serious concern that many st... “turned off” computing by a combination of factors t... to make the

The disclosure comes as a poll showed half of students i...
According to a survey of 1,026 students, published by th ...
Students are choosing universities where they can live a ...
Close to a third (27%) of poorer students choose univers ...
The survey

The European Commission has launched a "grand coalition"... region's IT skills shortages.

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources.

the rate of learning among students doesn’t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.[1]

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 201... Thomson Reuters are the only global university performan... world class universities across all of their core missio... research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. ... universitie

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

This autumn more than a million students are going to ta... experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher ...
Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education a ...
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha ...
Sounding li

This image problem starts at school, according to one te...
"Girls don't see IT as creative. It is that image of the ...
Gender differences become apparent during IT lessons, ev ...

Today's provosts are a skeptical lot. That may come with... they must constantly prioritize some ideas (and some peo... others -- tasks that are never easy and have been made m... the economic downturn.
But the 2013 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College a

Too many of Britain's top sportsmen and women were educa... country's Olympic chief has said.
Lord Moynihan said it was wholly unacceptable that more ...
He described it as one of the "worst statistics in Briti ...
He said it meant half of Great Britain

Two interesting things happened last week and neither ha... with social networking or privacy. First, a web server f... new in that, you say; happens all the time. Yes, but thi... web server: it was the machine that hosts the Raspberry ...
The second

Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 studen... globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence... widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early... large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethink... instruction

Universities contributed £3.3bn to the UK economy in th...
And analysis by England's higher education funding body ...
This is less than half the £56m US price-tag for simila ...
The report added that the value of UK knowledge exchange ...
Analysis by

Universities in the UK are worth £59bn for the economy,... the economic impact of higher education.
The report, based on figures for 2007-8, highlights the ...
Universities created, directly or indirectly, over 668,5 ...
The figures follow the launch o