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There are lots of things that go into a move, even beyond all the unboxing and the lifting of the heavy things up multiple flights of steps.

And one of those things includes changing your business address. Everywhere. On the entire Internet. And then off the entire Internet.

Below are 31 places you should make sure you change your business address. . .

Meetings are a great opportunity to present your ideas and become engaged in the decision-making process. Meetings often involve open-ended discussion among different types of people.

For this reason, there is no easy formula that will guarantee success. Instead, you need to develop a range of skills and techniques that will help you express your ideas clearly and tactfully. . .

In just four decades the Internet has spread to much of the world. Now, the shift to high-bandwidth connectivity and the global availability of supercomputing is accelerating. . .

These 10 technologies are changing education.

Instructors, administrators, and educational technologists should be keeping an eye on and considering for their colleges and classrooms, if they aren’t already using them. . .

At a session here at the annual higher education meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, officials from Virginia Tech tried to challenge the audience’s assumptions that large classes are necessarily bad learning experiences.

Peter Doolittle, director of the Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research at Virginia Tech, didn’t ever say that everything students and professors like about more intimate instruction can be replicated in a large class. Rather, he argued that "large classes aren’t going anywhere any time soon." Faculty members can "keep butting our heads against the wall" demanding more small classes, or they can focus on making larger classes better, he said. . .

Adopting a new communication tool is not easy. Figuring out the best way you can use Twitter is even harder.

Luckily you are not going it alone. We have culled the following resources from an array of websites that try to help anyone understand and better use Twitter.

If you haven’t yet taken the plunge, perhaps the following 100 resources should help you. . .

Research finds that people are watching lots of video in the workplace, even though they really shouldn't be. . .

Spezify, developed by two Swedish developers,  is a search engine with an aesthetic twist. Rather than presenting the information in a boring, uniform list, Spezify spices things up with images and snippets from various content that match the search terms. The page is filled with potential results in a way that is eye-catching.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Higher education is undergoing an explosive period of transformation that embraces the digital age.

From tablets to smart phones to wikis and blogs, today's digital environment makes communication, collaboration and information sharing easier than ever before. . .

Here is a list of 50 terrific for how to use Twitter in an educational setting.

Most faculty schedule at least three office hours per week—that’s 2,700 minutes a semester. If you have 135 students, that’s 20 minutes for each student. Even if you have 270, that’s still 10 minutes per student.

Recently I’ve been working to make the most of these 2,700 minutes of office hours. They offer prime time for one-to-one mentoring. In the process, my thinking about office hours has shifted a bit, and I’m using my office hours in more ways. Consequently I have had a greater number of students taking advantage of this learning opportunity. . .