education

Introducing the QTrobot that helps autistic children in learning. It also gets motivated and engaged, creates a link between therapists, parents and autistic children.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become an excellent way of offering quality education to virtually anyone around the globe, mostly for free. But a new study shows that students in these courses rarely make it to the end.

Education in schools has come to depend immensely on broadband connectivity, given internet's infinite stock of helpful and relevant resources. Zuckerberg's Education initiative and Gates' Foundation have now dished out funds to help schools in U.S. get this much-needed high-speed internet access.

US is usually hailed as the country which hosts some of the best educational institutes. However, what many tend to ignore is the fact that US has a huge population of illiterate individuals. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has now divulged numbers which show how serious America's educational problem is.

NSA is on the verge of kickstarting its new data center in Bluffdale, Utah. The data center has been propped up with a rather hefty budget of $1.2 billion. Interestingly, the agency has reached out to the University of Utah and is helping launch a program which is meant to specifically educate and train students about data center technologies.

Ever taken a course on Coursera, edX, or Udacity? I have. Even before that, I was a frequent user of MIT OpenCourseWare. From the experience I gathered while using these resources or taking these massive online open courses, aka MOOCs, is that most people enroll to learn, formal credit means very little. Hence, when I read an article by Gregory…

Apple Launches Education only model 21.5-Inch iMac for Educational Institutions. This special model is $200 cheaper than the entry-level pricing for consumer models and comes with minimum specs.