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Medical education is increasingly about debate and discussion. Here we comment on how apps can help apply that attitude to CME.

En el entorno online, clientes y vendedores  sufren una serie de fricciones que dificultan una relación fluida entre  debido en parte a la falta de entendimiento entre los sujetos. Un cliente poten...

You can do a ton of great things with just an iPad, but some of the best uses are using it as an external controller for your computer.

The provosts of Big 10 universities and the University of Chicago are in high-level talks to create an online education network across their campuses, which collectively enroll more than 500,000 students a year.

And these provosts from some of America’s top research universities have concluded that they – not corporate entrepreneurs and investors -- must drive online education efforts.

The plans and concerns are outlined in a position paper that comes just as education technology companies, including Coursera and 2U, are working to expand or deepen their ties to universities, including universities in the Big 10-related group of provosts known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/19/big-10-provosts-question-partnerships-ed-tech-companies#ixzz2Wel43kqM ;
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 Instituto para el Desarrollo Humano   www.idhpr.com  Invitación  Ética: cambio con Propósitos PONCE En los 35 años de fundación del Instituto para el Desarrollo Humano, IDH, el jueves 27 de junio de 2013 se llevará a cabo el 1er...

The Dashboards feature in Google-Analytics is a great way to arrange a set of related custom widgets into a report you look at frequently (for example, see dashboards for a variety of use cases in our Solutions Gallery).

Rosetta Stone, the popular commercial language-instruction system, is no replacement for trained teachers and in-class learning, a new study has found. The company that makes the system says it has no interest in replacing teachers, though it has recently made deals with colleges to use its product as a teaching tool.

A report on the study, published in the most recent issue of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages’ Bulletin, is an example of growing faculty concern that software could replace classroom teaching.

Constantly I am checking out fresh Facebook content so I am always on the cutting edge and every time I see an awesome infographic I save it to my desktop.

Ya os hemos hablado en algunas ocasiones de Rounds (rounds.com), la solución de videoconferencia que, compitiendo con los famosos Google Hangouts, permite

Two Australian universities announced this week that they would offer assessment and credit of specific otherwise free, open online courses for a fee.

On Monday, Deakin University launched its first massive open online course on humanitarian emergencies, offering students the option of taking it for free, or for a fee of $495 they can be assessed and awarded credit towards a postgraduate qualification.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/19/australian-universities-offer-fee-based-credit-moocs#ixzz2WelWnK9b ;
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This fall Rice University will offer the first course aimed specifically at K-12 science teachers through the online education provider Coursera.

Prezi is a cloud based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them.

Moocs, the new model of university education, have no race, colour, sex or wealth barriers, and can be accessed at a click