Tuesday, September 04, 2007

open courseware Notre Dame OpenCourseWare. Notre Dame joins over a hundred OCW Consortium institutions providing open access to course materials. The Notre Dame OCW emphasis is on Humanities and Social Sciences courses. See the FAQ to orient to the Notre Dame materials. ___JH _____ "Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. We hope you find Notre Dame OCW valuable, whether you're a student looking for some extra help, a faculty member trying to prepare a new course, or just interested in learning more about a topic that interests you. Notre Dame OCW does not grant credits or degrees, and does not provide access to faculty. What Notre Dame OCW does give you is open access to the materials used in a variety of courses." (Via Learning Online Info.) [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online] 5:47:45 AM    comment [] sharing CHEPS Higher Education Links. The Netherlands is a country with a long and distinguished history in education, including distance education. The Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) is located at the University of Twente. Sometimes the best display is simply a categorized listing that can be scanned quickly and revised and updated easily. That's what can be found in the CHEPS' Listing of HE Agencies, Institutes, and Resources (organized both alphabetically and geographically). Also look at the CHEPS' HE Monitor. _____JH _____ "In formulating policy, national governments are increasingly taking into account an international perspective. The continuing globalisation, the changes in the economy, and the growing mobility of employees, students and academic staff across the European Union, are only a few reasons for this orientation. Internationally oriented higher education policy cannot be formulated without knowledge of what is going on in higher education elsewhere. This information is valuable not only to determine how one's own country higher education is doing, but also to identify trends, higher education issues and policies dealing with these issues. To collect, structure and analyse this type of information, CHEPS has developed the CHEPS Higher Education Monitor." [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online] 5:46:31 AM    comment [] browser A Preview of Opera 9.5. jrowl writes "Opera 9.5 Alpha is scheduled to be released tomorrow, and CyberNet has a review of the browser's new features based on preview code. Some of the most prominent new options include a full history search, bookmark and Speed Dial syncing, and an 'Open with' menu option to pull up a website in another browser that's installed on your PC. 'This is one of those things that I had said Opera needs to work on the most. By this point, most Firefox users have grown accustomed to keeping their bookmarks synchronized with an online service. Now Opera users will have the same pleasure! All you need is a free My Opera account, and you'll be able to privately synchronize your bookmarks, Speed Dial sites, and Personal Bar with their server. You'll then be able to access that data whether you're at work, home, or anywhere! To setup synchronization just select the "Synchronize with My Opera" option from the File Menu.' There's also a video to go along with the text." [Slashdot] 5:43:41 AM    comment [] ePortfolio School Kids Get Virtual Web Lockers. Lucas123 writes "Seventh and eighth graders in Tulsa, Oklahoma not only get tablet PCs at the beginning of the school year, but they are now issued 100MB of storage through a hosted school 'Web Locker' system. The Web lockers also include chat, calendaring, and collaboration capabilities, but school administrators can also monitor and track all files uploaded to the system, and lock out individuals for misuse."[Slashdot] 5:38:00 AM    comment [] HCI LCD Screen With Embedded Optical Sensors. dk3nn3dy writes "Sharp has developed a LCD display with optical sensors built into the displays pixels, without requiring a touch-sensitive film to be bonded on top of the regular screen. The optical sensor is similar to that used in scanners, allowing for notes or business cards to be scanned by the screen itself. As the optical recognition technology is built into the pixels it also simplifies tactile recognition based on simultaneously touching multiple points. Future uses include fingerprint authentication on the screen of your mobile phone or PDA, or iPhone style touch recognition. Volume production will start next spring."[Slashdot] 5:36:53 AM    comment [] privacy California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers. InternetVoting writes "California has passed a bill banning companies from requiring employees to have RFID chips surgically implanted. Already one company has been licensed by the federal government, implanting more than 2000 people. At least one other company — CityWatcher.com, a Cincinnati video surveillance company — already required RFID implants in some employees. 'State Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) proposed the measure after at least one company began marketing radio frequency identification devices for use in humans. "RFID is a minor miracle, with all sorts of good uses," Simitian said. "But we shouldn't condone forced 'tagging' of humans. It's the ultimate invasion of privacy.'"[Slashdot] 5:34:55 AM    comment [] biotech Mom's Genes or Dad's? Map Can Tell. . Scientists have for the first time determined the order of virtually every letter of DNA code in an individual, offering an unprecedented readout of the separate genetic contributions made by that person's mother and father. By Rick Weiss. [washingtonpost.com - Technology] 5:31:13 AM    comment [] audio Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning. The feed deliverers us news of research suggesting that the use of A as the universal tuning frequency has made our ears less discerning of the notes immediately around it. Here's the abstract from PNAS describing research with people possessing the rare quality of "absolute pitch."[Slashdot] 5:28:55 AM    comment [] health Aubrey de Grey's 'Ending Aging' book published. Aubrey de Grey's much-anticipated book, Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime, co... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 5:26:22 AM    comment [] econtent Bandwidth could be a new global 'currency'. Bandwidth could become a form of "currency" with users paying for downloaded files by uploading more data themselves. The researchers' free software, called Tribler, uses a modified version of the popular BitTorrent file-trading algorithm. This re... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 5:25:49 AM    comment []

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