Last update: Sunday 6/17/18 @ 12:30 pm
This week's cover = Federal judge approves merger of AT&T and Time Warner ... Other top stories = Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) provide stronger upward mobility ... Antarctic ice loss triples in last decade ... Google's latest undiversity reportThis blog was established by the Digital Learning Lab to provide information that supports Black America’s efforts to close the Digital Divide. Its original focus on HBCUs has been broadened to include other colleges, universities, and community-based groups that enhance the computational thinking skills of Black Americans and the networks of successful Black techs who support each others’ efforts to achieve even greater success.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Sunday, June 10, 2018
TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 6/9/18
Last update: Sunday 6/10/18 @ 12:30 pm
This week's cover = Harvard affiliate develops low cost method for removing CO2 from atmosphere ... Other top stories = Microsoft buys GitHub ... IBM/Nvidia make world's fastest supercomputer ... Honey bees understand zeroThe Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in tech (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant #EdTech innovations in the broader context of information technology ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 6/9/18
Wednesday, June 06, 2018
#EdTechBiz -- Microsoft should acquire DataCamp
Last update: Wednesday 6/6/28
Now that Microsoft has gobbled up GitHub, who's next? In a recent op-ed published on Inside Higher Ed, Joshua Kim suggested that Microsoft should acquire Coursera. While I can understand why an academic would make such a recommendation, I don't think Coursera lies within Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's laser focus on the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI).
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