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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Where is NEH Money Going? New Web Site Has Answers
The National Endowment for the Humanities is going semi-transparent with its grants. Its new Web site allows people to search for recipeints of NEH money by name, by field of inquiry, by date of award, or by institution. Do you want to know who is getting [...]
Free Electronic Textbooks Do Not Hurt Print Sales, Report Says
Saturday, September 19th, 2009Free Electronic Textbooks Do Not Hurt Print Sales, Report Says
Making free e-textbooks available to students does not affect sales of the print books, a new report from a publicly funded group in Britain suggests.
But the managing director of a major publishing company is challenging those findings, saying sales of print materials were not as high [...]
Tech-Research Round-Up: The Latest in Bikes, Trash, and Contact Lenses
Saturday, September 19th, 2009Tech-Research Round-Up: The Latest in Bikes, Trash, and Contact Lenses
College researchers work on some out-there technology projects. They may not lead to everday products, but they can help us rethink mundane facts of life. Here are three recent projects that caught our eye, in what is the first of an occasional series:
Eye of the Beholder
If [...]
Colleges’ Transfer to Gmail Accounts Sends Students Mixed Messages
Saturday, September 19th, 2009Colleges’ Transfer to Gmail Accounts Sends Students Mixed Messages
Students at several colleges were able to read each other’s e-mail messages because of a software bug in Google Apps, though the company says the problem has been corrected.
Google officials acknowledged that the mixup affected a handful of students at a handful of colleges, though they sought [...]
Student Arrested for Allegedly Posting Menacing Facebook Messages
Saturday, September 19th, 2009Student Arrested for Allegedly Posting Menacing Facebook Messages
An 18-year-old student at St. John’s University, in New York, has been arrested after allegedly posting messages on Facebook in which he threatened to kill people on the campus with a “Virginia Tech attack,” referring to the 2007 campus shootings that killed 32 people, law-enforcement officials said today.
Radames [...]
Google Says Gotcha to ReCaptcha, the Word-Puzzle Company
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Google Says Gotcha to ReCaptcha, the Word-Puzzle Company
Search giant Google Inc. announced today that it has purchased reCaptcha, a company that began as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University. ReCaptcha develops online word puzzles to serve both as Web-site security and to help digitize printed text, and Google says it will use it in [...]
Harvard Students Start Online Magazine for College Women
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Harvard Students Start Online Magazine for College Women
Move aside, Cosmo.
Three students at Harvard University have created an online magazine, Her Campus, for female college students, hoping to fill what they see as a gap in the crowded world of women’s magazines.
Its content, written by college students, covers topics like style, love and health. A [...]
Do Students Cheat More in Online Classes? Maybe Not
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Do Students Cheat More in Online Classes? Maybe Not
A new study contradicts the perception that cheating is more widespread in online classes, finding that students in virtual courses were less likely to cheat than their face-to-face peers.
You can’t make any sweeping generalizations based on the results, since the study only looked at 225 students at [...]
U. of Texas System Buys Land in Second Life
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009U. of Texas System Buys Land in Second Life
Anonymity Online Not Absolute, Judge Rules
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Anonymity Online Not Absolute, Judge Rules
A new court ruling may challenge the ability to make anonymous comments online.
Last week, in a case involving a former police officer from the University of California at Davis and a blog called the Vanguard of Davis, a Sacramento judge ruled that anonymity on the Internet is not absolute, The [...]