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Social Media Gains Momentum in Online Education
Results from one survey suggest online instructors are more likely than on-campus instructors to use social media for both personal and professional reasons. In his University of Hawaii online course,...
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4 Questions to Ask Before Enrolling in a For-Profit Online Program
Prospective students can be forgiven for wondering whether they should enroll in an online, for-profit degree program. The industry went through a rough patch, enduring criticism for high student...
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5 Social Networks For Students To Get Academic Help
With the growing use of social networking sites like Facebook and twitter, the methodology of education for students is finding new and improved ways. Students are getting more prone to the...
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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields
ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years,...
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8 Steps To Teacher-Led, Digital PD
Professional development for teachers is a beautiful thing. While many professionals work either in isolation or total stagnation, educators are constantly given new tools to become better at their...
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Why fb’s Trending information Controversy is a superb component
Sen. John Thune, it seems, is greatly surprised, shocked to discover that bias may also play a position in determining what “Trending subjects” display up at the fb facebook -0.57% pages of almost 1.7...
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Facebook CEO Says Group Will Not Become a Media Company
Facebook will not become a media company, its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, telling students the firm would remain a technology platform. An increasing number of users are turning to...
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Facebook Testing New Feature in News Feed to Encourage More Conversations
The feature is showing up for select users currently It collates updates from friends and family There is no word on commercial rollout of the feature After testing the new auto-play video with sound...
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Donald Trump Isn’t Exempt From Hate-Speech Rules, Twitter Clarifies
Twitter recently banned hundreds of accounts that violated its rules and the micro-blogging site said no one is exempt from its hate-speech rules – not even President-elect Donald Trump. “The Twitter...
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Yahoo India Year in Review 2016 Sees Sportwomen as Top News Makers
Indian sportswomen who won laurels and dominated the headlines during the Rio Olympics pipped all other contenders in 2016 to emerge as the top news makers in the country, Yahoo announced on Thursday....
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Zuckerberg Says Facebook’s a ‘New Kind of Platform, Not a Traditional Media...
Facebook is neither a “traditional” media company, nor it is a “traditional” technology company, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said, adding that it is a new kind of platform. Zuckerberg on Wednesday invited...
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8 Free Social Media Marketing Tools Professionals Use
It’s a jungle and it’s set to get even wilder That’s the reply we get whenever we ask content marketing pros about their opinion on social media. Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram,...
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Germany Could Ding Facebook for Fake News
The frenzied 2016 election cycle mercifully is over, but Facebook’s fake news problem isn’t going away. The company may face steep fines in Germany if it fails to address it satisfactorily. A bill...
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Social media firms given a month to fix consumer rights issues in Europe
Facebook, Twitter and Google are under more pressure in Europe to comply with regional rules. The latest issue they find themselves on the hook for relates to complaints pertaining to a variety of...
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US Appeals Court Upholds Gag Orders on FBI Data Surveillance
A US federal appeals court on Monday upheld nondisclosure rules that allow the FBI to secretly issue surveillance orders for customer data to communications firms, a ruling that dealt a blow to privacy...
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Amazon Whole Food Deal Opposed by Retail Workers Union
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, which represents retail workers, sent a letter to antitrust enforcers on Monday warning about the dangers of Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods both to...
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Charles Bachman, Database Management System Pioneer, Dies at 92
Charles W. Bachman, a software engineer whose creation of the first database management system helped popularise computers in the corporate world and earned him the highest honor in computer science,...
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Facebook Groups for Pages Launched, Provides a Channel for Discussion
In its bid to provide a platform for communities to hold discussions on specific areas, Facebook on Wednesday added a new feature called ‘Groups for Pages’. The feature will allow Page admins to create...
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Facebook Flaw Said to Let Strangers Into Your Account, Facebook Responds
A security researcher claims to have spotted a flaw in Facebook’s account recovery feature that can let anyone easily break into your account – that too, without you ever noticing, media reported on...
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Twitter’s Internal Numbers Show It’s Getting Less Awful at Fighting Abuse
Twitter on Thursday offered some top-line stats in a company blog post about the results of its latest anti-abuse efforts – showing how its approach is working as social media firms struggle with...
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