Tag: <span>tech</span>

Tag: tech

Mismatch between business and higher education in Silicon Valley, new research shows

eLearningworld News One of the most important aspects for Silicon Valley’s continual growth and innovation is higher education, in a new book Stanford professors emeriti Dick Scott and Mike Kirst identifies several mismatches. The book with the title Higher Education and Silicon Valley: Connected but Conflicted is based on a …

The design thinking process of building a drone for disaster-zones, MIT research

eLearningworld News Engineers at MIT have designed a drone that can work without interruption for more than five days. At the same time as it stays connected, and can continue gathering data as well as provide temporary telecommunication, even if it is in a disaster zone where communication-problems goes with …

Latest News: Trending – Companies using Machine Learning to become more effective

eLearningworld News from US What would speeding up business processes with up to ten times the speed you have today do for your company? H. James Wilson, Sharad Sachdev och Allan Alter, executives of Accenture writes in Harvard Business Review that machine learning with such capacity now finding its way …

Latest News: German survey – People prefer service robots before nursing homes

eLearningworld News from Germany Service robots or nursing home? The Germans answer is clear: 83 percent can imagine to use a service robot at home if they could continue to live longer in their own homes. This is the main result from a recent survey conducted by the opinion research …

Latest News: Reinvention of authenticity in the digital age, new research from Stanford

eLearningworld News from US It is more authentic to listening to vinyl or sitting by a desk and writing with a pen on a paper in comparison with digital developments within the field is still a common view. The Stanford scholar Vanessa Chang’s research within this field of human interaction …

Latest News: Five Quotes from Davos 2016: On the Road to the Future

eLearningworld News from Switzerland “Data is the new currency of this fourth industrial revolution.” Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft “Technology itself will not determine the future we get. Our choices will. Leadership will.” Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada “We need societies that acknowledge diversity as a source of strength …

Latest News: Poland role model for Education in Europe, according to World Bank Report

eLearningworld News from Europe Europe’s population is aging where many countries has declining populations in combination with declining educational results this could have very bad consequences for future prosperity. The solution according to the World Bank Report “What’s next in aging Europe: Aging with growth in Central Europe and the …

Latest News: Research on why big Governmental ICT-projects too often fails

eLearningworld News from the Netherlands and Norway Exceeding the budget, not meeting the deadlines, not achieving the desired results or a combination is very common headaches of ICT-projects especially in the public sector, according to new research from Maastricht University.  According to PhD candidate Niels Groen, “these situations are the …