Discover the growing issue of AI-generated fake news on Snapchat’s Discovery page. Learn about deepfakes, their impact, and how to identify them.
Department of Education: Online Education Beats Classroom
An interesting study from none other than the US Department of Education says that students using online education actually perform better than those who just learn in the classroom. The findings are all the more intriguing, considering the source.
The study examined a number of other studies on the subject to reach its conclusions. Online education programs should be pleased with the results.
Some of the key findings from the study:
Education Through the Cloud with Google
Google Apps for Education has had a big year, further emphasizing Google’s push for cloud computing. A push that has included a recent guarantee of 99.9% uptime on certain Google Apps. Cloud computing with Google Apps has often been discussed in the business context, and it is clearly quite relevant to the education field as well.
Education and Marketing
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Pageflakes Has Been Working within Social & Education
Below is an update on what Pageflakes has been working on within the topics of social and education. First some background on Pageflakes
AOL Spreads Its Privacy Education Program
AOL announced a program that will help Internet users understand behaviorally targeted advertising, along with providing mechanisms for opting out of such targeting.
Education Popular Topic With Online Teens
Ninety-six percent of U.S. teens and tweens with online access use social networking functions, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging and visit online communities such as Facebook and MySpace according to new study by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates.
Michigan Schools Get Google Apps For Education
Google occasionally works out deals with individual universities, but it appears that the search engine company is starting to think big. Not Texas-big, perhaps, but Michigan-big. It’s in this latter state that Google intends to roll out Google Apps for Education.
Usability and SEM Virtual Education Opportunities
Learn from your living room or heck, just stay in bed. The following are some educational and information opportunties coming up in the user centered design, human factors and search marketing industries.
Human Factors
Yahoo! Gives The Gift Of Education
Instead of dolling out thousands of dollars worth of gifts that high-end customers will never use, Yahoo! has taken a philanthropic approach to holiday gift giving.