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The US Department of Education sponsored the Center for Technology in Learning to look into the effectiveness of online learning – and to specifically compare the effectiveness of using online learning compared to face to face learning. The results, published
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This seems to have started from one of my colleagues in Microsoft Research wanting to improve his language skills through the medium of role-playing games. It worked but it seems that not many people understand why. So, Microsoft is now co-funding
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Another release from Microsoft to help make Office even more relevant to researchers and scientists is this (beta) release of a Word add-in to enhance the authoring of scientific and technical articles, including support for the National Library
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Sorry about the late posting of this (blame my holiday) but I wanted to let you know about the UK HPC User Group meeting coming up in June 26. Registrations are here . This meeting is intended for customers, partners and developers to “meet
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Yesterday, I visited a leading research university in the North of England ( there will soon be a case study and then I can name them) to learn more about their requirements for a research extranet. Before I go much further, they have already got this
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The word "supercomputers" always fills me with a bit of awe - having visited the CERN labs in Geneva in the late 80's, my mind goes back to big black towers, full of flashing lights, and with a bizarre sofa arrangement around the box. And all of this
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A colleague has alerted me to this resource, which could be valuable to you, or your colleagues, if they are involved in either IT teaching or research. The MSR Assessment Toolkit includes resources to assess and evaluate instructional programs that involve
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