Life After Retirement: Back to School?
Harvard has recently launched a new one year academic program to serve the growing number of retired professionals who aren’t ready to lead lives filled with early bird specials and afternoon golf...
View ArticleStraighterLine: All You Can Learn for $99 a Month
StraighterLine is a new kind of remote education company, offering online college courses in basic subjects such as math, accounting and writing at an extremely low flat rate of $99 a month.
View ArticleNew College Board Policy Revamps SAT Score Reporting
The College Board has implemented a new SAT policy this year called Score Choice.
View ArticleSamsung Seeds Mobile Charging Stations Across America’s Future
Samsung recently announced that it will be installing mobile charging stations across several major American universities.
View ArticleThe Death Of The Computer Lab
Traditional college computer labs are being phased out in favor of more flexible work spaces.
View ArticleUniversity Of Michigan Creates New Millimeter-Scale Computing System
A prototype implantable eye pressure monitor opens doors for advanced microcomputer technology.
View ArticleClass Of 2011: The Most Indebted Of All Time
The average student re-paying loans this year will owe $22, 900.00 nearly double the amount of ten years ago.
View ArticleThe MIT Index: Stats On The Students
MIT releases a student's index that illustrate the varying dynamics of the MIT student population.
View ArticleStudents Post On Wikipedia For Class Projects
Teachers are embracing Wikipedia as a writing and research tool used for class projects.
View Article‘Uncommon’ Peer-To-Peer Consultancy Helps You Prepare For College
A group of undergraduates band together to create a means of assisting high school students in their grueling college applications.
View ArticleUniversity Uses Groupon To Attract New Students
A private university in the U.S. has become the first education institute to offer a discount on one of its course using the group buying platform.
View ArticleNeed To Know: 10 Must Read Posts Of The Week Vol. 9
A Bing Initiative: A weekly round-up of the top ten most popular posts on PSFK--from culture to technology, art to business, this list has it all.
View Article‘Smart Shirt’ Can Wirelessly Monitor Vital Signs
While most patients have to use intrusive wires to monitor their vital signs, a research team in the Carlos III University in Spain is developing a shirt that provides both comfort and biometric...
View ArticleBike Repair Station At University Encourages Students To Go Green
The University of Virginia provides easy access to tools and an air pump to students on campus.
View ArticleCollege Students Make New Connections With Yapik
Net Element launched a pilot social networking site that helps college students find what they need within their campuses.
View ArticleVirginia Tech Newspaper Used Twitter For Continuous Publishing [Headlines]
The university's paper was able to publish updates during and after the shooting via tweets, gaining 18,000 followers in a few hours.
View ArticleSensor Embedded Kitchen Utensils ‘Gamifies’ Cooking For Future Chefs [Future...
The French Digital Kitchen is an innovative cooking environment that features cooking utensils and ingredient containers with digitally embedded sensors alongside interactive displays, which track and...
View ArticleHigher Education Is Now Cheap And Accessible
The Faculty Project curates free online lectures by professors from top universities.
View ArticleFeatured: Pop Culture Guru Believes Social Media Creates Local Movements Not...
Best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff, shares his thoughts about how Facebook and Twitter spark local movements rather than large-scale ones -- in the kick off to our Social Media Week coverage.
View ArticleUniversity Gives All Incoming Freshmen The Nokia Lumia 900 [Headlines]
With a long track record of integrating technology into their curriculum Seton Hall, located in South Orange, New Jersey, will continue the trend by providing smartphones running the Windows Phone 7.5 OS.
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