Tag: MIT
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Why Textbooks Should Be Open Source [Infographic]
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Amazon, Apple, Google and many other tech giants have been opening online bookstores with little regard for open source digital textbooks. Many universities, including MIT and Carnegie Mellon, post course lectures ...
Are You One of the 10 Million People Using MIT's OpenCourseWare?
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If you've never watched an online lecture from MIT, you are apparently in the minority. According to recently released statistics, more than 10 million people are now using MIT's OpenCourseWare Project. The OCW shares...
The Coolest Job At MIT Is Now Accepting Applications
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You've likely heard of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You may have even heard of the Media Lab. If not, here's a quick summary: The Media Lab is a place where the future is lived, not imagined. Our doma...
You’ll Probably Be Wearing This Skintight NASA Suit Someday
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What if you could limit the amount of bone loss in your own lifetime by simply wearing a certain kind of suit? Would you do it? What if that suit was a next-generation skintight suit designed for NASA astronauts? This new suit may be the wave of the future and it's being tested out by astronauts right now. A stretchy suit that mimics the effects of the Earth's gravity has been developed in the US to spare astronauts the ill effects of long missions of weightlessness. Returning astronauts have lower bone density and muscle mass and can even suffer separation of their vertebrae. The suit is made of a fabric with carefully tailored stretchiness.
Eye Exam? MIT Just Made An App For That
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Just another amazing solution to a problem you didn't even know existed yet from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT Media Labs researchers are field-testing a smartphone application and $1 plastic lens at...
10 Reasons Adam Wheeler's Harvard Hoax Will Become A Movie
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You've likely heard about Adam Wheeler's exploits with Harvard, MIT, Bowdoin, Yale, and Philips Andover. The 23-year-old is being charged with dozens of counts of fraud after he was allegedly found to have falsified ...
Former Harvard Student Arrested: Faked His Grades, Application, Everything.
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A former Harvard student is being accused of faking his grades, letters of recommendation, and pretty much every part of his academic history. 23-year-old Adam Wheeler is due in court tomorrow to be arraigned on multi...
How MIT Plans To Stop Distracted Drivers
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Distracted drivers has been a recurring topic of conversation on EduDemic. Now Oprah is raising the level of debate nationwide by asking MIT for help. The Department of Transportation has asked the minds at MIT to thi...
Blogs As A Higher Ed Recruiting Tool: A How-To Guide For Schools
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It may seem like everyone and their mother has a blog these days. Unfortunately, higher ed administrators seem to behind the times in this department. Only a select few schools are actively encouraging staff, faculty,...
Profile: Henry Jenkins, Media Spectator
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Gen Y’s seeming addiction to media gets a bad rap these days. We’re all text messages, Twitter and video games. Don’t think video games and movies can help kids learn? Henry Jenkins, Provost’s Professor of Communicati...
Bill Gates Visiting Harvard and MIT [VIDEO]
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You can watch the live stream right on EduDemic. The talk is taking place at Harvard University at Sanders Theatre from 3:00PM - 4:00PM EST. Live broadcast should begin around 2:45PM EST: What's Happening: As we...
