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Cambridge Computing: The First 75 Years: Book review
The Cambridge University Computer Lab has celebrated its first 75 years with a coffee-table book that covers the history of computing from its pioneering EDSAC to the Raspberry Pi
Pearson acquires Learning Catalytics; cloud-based education tech
The educational publishing giant continues on its recent spree of technology-focused acquisitions.
Dell's new Latitude 3330: Making Common Core assessments a reality
Dell's new laptop for schools is slick. But what's much more interesting is how it envisions it being used to support the latest generation of student assessments.
UK Office of Fair Trading investigates child in-app purchases
The OFT is taking a deeper look at free applications aimed at children, which include in-app purchases with the potential to give parents a monthly heart attack.
I was a teenage programmer before teenage programmers were cool
In honor of this week's Great Debate about whether kids should be taught programming, David Gewirtz takes us back almost 40 years, and shows us how his teachers inspired him back in the punch card and paper tape days.
India-Germany pact to boost skilled worker immigration
German will be promoted as a foreign language in India following a bilateral pact aimed at improving mutual trust and intercultural relations.
Malaysia adopts Google Apps, Chromebooks for education
The move is part of a national plan to reform its education system through Web usage, and Google says Chromebooks will bring both user friendliness and cost savings to the country.
Treehouse, the 'biggest computer science school in the world,' wants to teach you how to code
Programmers are in demand partly because it's difficult to learn how to code. Treehouse wants to make it much easier.
How online learning with LurnQ is more social and clutter-free
LurnQ, a social online learning platform, makes curating knowledge easier and helps learners consume and share content in a clutter-free environment.
Elsevier acquires Mendeley; cloud-based collaboration for researchers
Elsevier has long courted the scientific, research and technical community. With Mendeley, Elsevier will be able to offer tools to annotate documents, create citations and bibliographies, collaborate and more.
The British Library saves the .uk web, starting 20 years too late
The British Library and the UK's other legal deposit libraries have started archiving around 5 million websites in the .uk domain, but the past 20 years may well remain a digital black hole
Having a ball with code: Can Sphero inspire the next generation of developers?
Getting kids to code can be hard. Is a Bluetooth-connected robot ball part of the solution?
Knimbus enables Web-based knowledge discovery, collaboration
Indian company believes the time is right to bring search and social tools together for the academic community, making it easier for them to discover content and collaborate.
Only 1 in 20 Indian tech grads considered 'world class'
The quality of India's private sector education system is being questioned in a study by Knowledgefaber, which found only a minority of India's yearly batch of over 350,000 engineering and IT grads are fit to join MNCs.
The answer to free, peer-to-peer IT courses and everything? For France, it's 42
After having shaken up France's mobile market, Xavier Niel is aiming to do the same with a new school offering free tuition but no diploma to thousands of students.