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1. Introduction

There is no textbook for this course. There are selected Media - articles, videos, pictures, diagrams, podcasts,... listed as resources for each module. You don't need to study them all. Browse through SEVERAL and find 2-3 to review in detail. Or find your own...


SOCIETY

A Computer Geek's History of the Internet - www.WBGLinks.net
timeline of computers’ history you may never heard of before. This interesting information will help you to build a fundamental knowledge about the relationship between computers and our society,...
Social Impact and ROI Report: Every $1 of Cell-Ed Learning = $55 Social ROI - Cell-Ed
Social impact is that which is measured beyond GDP, financial reports, economic impact, or Guidestar metrics. It includes the impact on quality of life and is valued based on how it improves the he...
THE 17 GOALS | Sustainable Development
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the fu...
Servers
Mastodon is not a single website. To use it, you need to make an account with a provider—we call them servers—that lets you connect with other people across Mastodon.Getting started with Mastod...
How Is Technology Changing the World, and How Should the World Change Technology?
At the heart of fights over new technologies and their resulting global changes are often two conflicting visions of technology: a fundamentally optimistic one that believes humans use it as a tool...


FIND IT

How Search Works - YouTube
The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here's how it all works. page rank, search results, ads transcr...
Perplexity Blog
"What's the difference between Quick Search vs. Copilot Search?While Quick Search gives you fast, basic answers, Copilot goes further. It asks for details, considers your preferences, dive...
How to Be Amazingly Good at Asking Questions
You might not be getting the feedback you need to make corrections in your behavior. You might not be getting type of answers that you need to hear. You also might just be getting downright wrong i...
How Search Works - YouTube
video 3:14 The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here's how it all works."
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2. Privacy and Freedom of Speech - protect

PRIVACY

Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB | TechCrunch
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance which has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms. The guidance, which was confirmed incoming W...
FTC Order Prohibits Data Broker X-Mode Social and Outlogic from Selling Sensitive Location Data | Federal Trade Commission
"Data broker X-Mode Social and its successor Outlogic will be prohibited from sharing or selling any sensitive location data to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company sol...
Google's new settings let you remove your private info from search results. Here's how | ZDNET
new dashboard for an existing feature called Results about you. Introduced in 2022, this feature lets you track any personal details that pop up in a search result so that you can ask Google to rem...


INTERNET

What is Web3 and Why It Matters | On Digital Strategy | Dion Hinchcliffe
the future of the Web, especially as it relates to creating, storing, and exchanging information, can be better achieved by incorporating decentralization based on blockchains. That’s really it,...
What Is DNS? Everything You Need to Know About the Web's Phone Book | PCMag
Domain Name System (DNS) is the phone book of the internet. It’s the system that converts website domain names (hostnames) into numerical values (IP address) so they can be found and loaded into...
What is Web3?
Web3 is a term used to describe the next iteration of the internet, one that is built on blockchain technology and is communally controlled by its users. new era of the internet, one in which use a...


PROTECT IT

What is catfishing and what can you do if you are catfished? | CNN Business
Catfishing is when a person uses false information and images to create a fake identity online with the intention to trick, harass, or scam another person. It is often on social media or dating app...
5 financial scams to watch out for in 2024
"Fraud cost U.S. consumers more than $7 billion in the first three quarters of 2023, a 5% increase from the same period a year earlier, according to the Federal Trade Commission.If you are awa...
Google's new settings let you remove your private info from search results. Here's how | ZDNET
new dashboard for an existing feature called Results about you. Introduced in 2022, this feature lets you track any personal details that pop up in a search result so that you can ask Google to rem...


General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB | TechCrunch
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has published new guidance which has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms. The guidance, which was confirmed incoming W...
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks – TechCrunch
Denmark is effectively banning Google’s services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingør were last year ordered to carry out a risk assessment around the processing of perso...


CULTURE

List of banned video games - Wikipedia
This is a list of video games that have been censored or banned by governments of various states in the world. Governments that have banned video games have been criticized for a correlated increas...
Best Virtual Field Trips for Kids | Tech & Learning
As ongoing social distancing and public health mandates have restricted travel, educators can help students experience these cultural institutions without getting on a bus, or even leaving their ho...
How Do Social Media Algorithms Work? | Blog | Online Digital Marketing Courses
Social media is so ingrained in our culture that it’s now a daily activity for the majority of people across the globe. And it’s not only the established networks that are gaining users every d...
Exploration Technology Lab | National Geographic Society
Deploying advanced imaging sensors, machine learning algorithms and systems to provide real-time data for monitoring biodiversity distribution, patterns and trends; detecting illegal fishing and po...



3. Intellectual Property - use

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Our Right To Challenge Junk Patents Is Under Threat  | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Through IPR, thousands of patents have been thrown out. The patent challengers who have kicked out some of these wrongly-granted monopolies have protected not just themselves, but countless other h...
IP Primer: What are my Intellectual Property Rights, and How Do I Protect Them? | SCORE
"Intellectual Property (IP) is often a company’s most valuable asset.Protectable Intellectual Property generally encompasses “creations of the mind,” like names, slogans, inventions, or...
Do’s and Don’ts for Maintaining a Trademark | SCORE
"Registering your trademark is the first step toward legally protecting your brand, but you must proactively protect and defend your trademark from infringement in order to keep your trademark...


RESEARCH

Home - Evaluating resources - Library Guides at UC Berkeley
When you encounter any kind of source, consider: Authority - Who is the author? What is their point of view? Purpose - Why was the source created? Who is the intended audience? Publicatio...
Basic Steps in the Research Process - NHCC.edu
simple and effective strategy for writing a research paper. Depending on your familiarity with the topic and the challenges you encounter along the way, you may need to rearrange these steps.Step 1...
QUBES - Home
Software For students and teachers Students can run free modeling and statistical software through their browser, eliminating the need to purchase or install software locally. Instructors can custo...


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

How to Prevent AI from Doing All the Thinking - John Spencer
"When is it okay to use AI?” The short answer is, “It depends on the learning task.” In using AI, we don’t want the machine to do the learning for us. This is why we should start with...
A Cautionary AI Tale: Why IBM’s Dazzling Watson Supercomputer Made a Lousy Tutor – The 74
" Human relationships are key to learning. In the talk, she noted that students who have a person in school who cares about their learning have higher graduation rates. But still.ChatGPT now h...
How I Built This with Guy Raz: AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Google DeepMind on Apple Podcasts
"an artificial agent that can do all the kinds of cognitive tasks that people can typically do, and possibly more...Now as the Chief AGI Scientist and a co-founder of Google DeepMind, he stand...


USE IT

Ditch Your To-Do List and Do This Instead | Sam Corcos | The Tim Ferriss Show - YouTube
A different way to schedule your time based on your calendar and realistic times for tasks to do.
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Switching Between Skimming and Focusing | Edutopia
kimming allows learners to broaden their horizons to a wide range of subjects and ideas without committing excessive time to any single one. This breadth of knowledge can lead to serendipitous disc...
How to Excel at Self-Directed Learning in 5 Steps | Fuse Classroom
Self-directed learning allows students to become independent learners, helping them not just obtain skills but also practice of independent learning. Students have the freedom to create their own c...
Digital Citizenship | Common Sense Education
Everything You Need to Teach Digital CitizenshipHelp students take ownership of their digital lives.All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make s...



4. Crime & Cybersecurity

CRIME

Popular Android TV boxes sold on Amazon are laced with malware | TechCrunch
Milisic said the malware’s default payload is a clickbot, essentially code that generates ad money by surreptitiously tapping on ads in the background. After the affected Android TV boxes are pow...
First man wrongfully arrested because of facial recognition testifies as California weighs new bills | California | The Guardian
In 2020, Robert Williams was arrested for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars of watches. Detroit police had matched grainy surveillance footage of the crime to Williams’ driver’s license p...
How can I check if my email account has been hacked?
"Scams are rising, and more people are falling for phishing attacks and email hacks than ever. Tap or click here to see how COVID-19 scams have become rampant.Just think about how many times a...
NetWalker ransomware affiliate sentenced to 20 years in prison | TechCrunch
Authorities in the U.S. and Belgium also seized the dark web site used by NetWalker to publish data stolen from victims.In March, Vachon-Desjardins was extradited to the U.S. to face charges of con...


CYBERSECURITY

Cost of a data breach 2022 | IBM
data breach in the US costs over twice the global averageFor the 12th year in a row, the United States holds the title for the highest cost of a data breach, USD 5.09 million more than the global a...
SANS NewsBites - Cyber Security News
NewsBites - Cyber Security NewsSANS NewsBites is a semiweekly executive summary of the most important cyber security news articles published recently. Each news item is annotated with important con...
Business email compromise attacks going mobile via SMS and social media apps | SC Media
"BECs remain one of the biggest cybersecurity threats today. The FBI has reported that losses from BECs have surpassed $43 billion globally and as time goes by, scammers are becoming more cunn...
Cybersecurity - Florida SBDC Network
Cyber-attacks against small businesses are on the rise. Small businesses are, unfortunately, attractive targets because they have information cybercriminals want and often don’t have the expertis...


SOLVE IT

If you really want to reach your full potential, start saying “yes” to these 10 things
For many of us, reaching our full potential seems like an impossible task. We’re stuck in our 9 to 5 jobs and don’t even know where to start.On the other side, there are people who have succeed...
Steve Jobs Said Your Overall Success May Be Tied to This Powerful Thinking Habit | Inc.com
Exercise "clean thinking"Before embarking on a new project or strategy, it's crucial to strip away the unnecessary complexities and, as Jobs stated, "get your thinking clean.&quo...
Warren Buffett Says Your Best Chance at Success Comes Down to 3 Simple Choices | Inc.com
Buffett's most famous rules -- your "inner scorecard."The inner scorecard defines your own standards and not what the world imposes on you. It's a principle Buffett learned from h...



5. Employment, Education and Entertainment - make

Assistive Technology

What is assistive technology?
"Assistive technology devicesThere’s a wide range of AT devices for people with learning and thinking differences. Simple AT tools include highlighters, organizers, and timers.Other AT tools...
Program helps students with disabilities
Students from Orange High School come to the mock CVS every other week and learn different tasksLess than 50% of Ohioans, ages 18 to 64, who are living with a disability currently have a jobChristi...
https://spectrum.ieee.org/stretch-assistive-robot
Robots for Humanity. The goal was to find ways of extending independence for people with disabilities, helping them and, just as importantly, their caregivers live better and more fulfilling lives....


Education

Technology as a bridge--not a shortcut--to student relationships
"what just one supportive relationship can offer to help a young person realize their academic and career potential. Today, far more of these stories are possible with technology that enables...
Khanmigo Education AI Guide | Khan Academy
World-class AI for educationSay hello to Khanmigo, Khan Academy’s AI-powered guide. Tutor for learners. Assistant for teachers.Tutoring for allEmpowering educatorsTake your teaching to the next l...
TechLit Africa ~ Digital Skills unlock Global Opportunities
Digital skills unlock global opportunities.Currently, we have 4,000 students from 10 schools across rural Kenya. We are selecting our next 100 schools in Kenya, to prepare an additional 40,000 stud...


Work

Remote working case studies | GOV.WALES
Remote working case studiesExamples of how employers and individuals benefitted from remote working.
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How To Be Happy at Work: 40 Tips To Improve Your Mindset | Indeed.com
Feeling happy at your workplace can be important for many reasons, including improving your mental health, productivity and reputation. If you work a full-time job, your office is one of the places...
25 Side Jobs That Can Be Done From Home—Hiring Now | FlexJobs
Call it a side hustle, a side gig, or even moonlighting, a side job is one you take on in addition to your primary job. You can do it part-time, seasonally, or even occasionally. Many people use si...


Xreality

360°, Northern lights in Norway, 12К video - YouTube
"Don't forget that this is 360° video: you can change the angle of view.Lying north of the Arctic circle within the severe waters of the Norwegian sea, the Lofoten archipelago is known fo...
Google Arts & Culture
"Step inside a galleryWith Augmented RealityDiscover Indian MiniaturesSee the tiny works up closeInside the Jean Pigozzi CollectionArt from Africa to JapanGetty Museum: Immersive ExperienceDis...
Immersive Web Developer Home
The WebXR Device API provides access to input (pose information from headset and controllers) and output (hardware display) capabilities commonly associated with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented...


MAKE IT

Creativity Rubrics | MyPBLWorks
2022 Creativity Rubric These research-based rubrics are designed to provide useful, formative information that teachers can use to guide instruction and provide feedback to students on their overal...
Scrintal is a great new tool for brainstorming ideas and projects
Map out a project. Organizing multistep projects can be challenging. Scrintal lets you easily focus on one element at a time. Create notes for pieces of your project, then step back and look at the...
With Just 2 Sentences, Steve Jobs Revealed a Beautiful Truth About Making Mistakes | Inc.com
beautiful lesson about success. You see, success isn't the pursuit of not making mistakes. Almost always, mistakes are the way you find your way to whatever you define as success. Mistakes are...


Financial literacy

Dilbert’s One-Page Guide to Everything Financial

if you like Dilbert and understand the corporate hell that he lives in. Otherwise, without further ado, here is Dilbert’s One-Page Guide to Everything Financial: Make a will. Pay off your credit cards. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support. Fund your 401k to the maximum.
How to pay off credit card debt | U.S. Bank
"With a few simple tips, you can learn how to tackle credit card debt and create a payment plan that works for you.If you’ve accumulated some credit card debt and are looking to pay it off o...
11 Free Personal Finance Excel Templates for Budgeting 
efficient, easy-to-use and free Excel template for personal budget or personal finance, Managing personal budget and finances are the necessary actions that help you save money. However, managing p...



6. Midterm - Millennium Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals Challenges - sample resources

1. Global Risks 2023: Today’s Crisis - Global Risks Report 2023 | World Economic Forum
With the global landscape dominated by manifesting risks, we introduce this year three time frames for understanding global risks: 1) current crises (i.e. global risks which are already unfolding),...
5 Global Issues to Watch in 2024 | unfoundation.org
From major elections across the globe to simultaneous and converging catastrophes, 2024 will be a pivotal year that shapes the geopolitical landscape and humanity’s collective future.The new year...
DevelopmentAid
Annually, 297,000 children under the age of five die from diarrheal infections caused by poor sanitation, hygiene, or contaminated drinking water 80% of wastewater is discharged into the enviro...
People Fixing the World: Coconuts fixing the world on Apple Podcasts
podcast. We eat millions of tonnes of coconuts every year - with the dense white flesh of the fruit making a tasty snack and the juice a refreshing drink.But the inedible husk and shell go to waste...
BBC World Service - People Fixing the World - Downloads
Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work. Watch stories of people changing their world on the Worl...


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7. Evaluating and Controlling Technology

-- from a review of A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology previously used as the textbook for CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society

"how to evaluate and control technology ... Baase writes of the inherent conflict between a democracy and open Internet, while dealing with the plethora of incorrect, foolish and biased information. She makes note of some totalitarian regimes that prohibit anti-government use of social media. She illustrates cases where these countries (China and Syria are just two of them) that create bogus dissident sites, find out which people are sympathetic to the cause, and then arrests these people."


ETHICS

Mozilla Foundation - With Great Tech Comes Great Responsibility
"The ethical issues facing the tech industry are abundant — military contracts, invasive data mining, biased algorithms, inhumane warehouse conditions, racist facial recognition software, an...
Who Is Liable When AI Kills? - Scientific American
The key is to ensure that all stakeholders—users, developers and everyone else along the chain—bear enough liability to ensure AI safety and effectiveness, though not so much they give up on AI...
How ethics will change the future of technology | Olivia Gambelin | TEDxPatras - YouTube
Olivia Gambelin explains that it is time to pursue good technology through a new form of AI innovation that focuses on human well-being and values. Olivia is an AI Ethicist who specializes in the p...


CONTROL - technology, evaluate

List of banned video games - Wikipedia
This is a list of video games that have been censored or banned by governments of various states in the world. Governments that have banned video games have been criticized for a correlated increas...
‎Brave New Planet: What Algorithms Say About You on Apple Podcasts
podcast 1h15m Artificial intelligence is letting us make predictive algorithms that translate languages and spot diseases as well or better than humans. But these systems are also being used to mak...


AI and Machine Learning

How to Prevent AI from Doing All the Thinking - John Spencer
"When is it okay to use AI?” The short answer is, “It depends on the learning task.” In using AI, we don’t want the machine to do the learning for us. This is why we should start with...
A Cautionary AI Tale: Why IBM’s Dazzling Watson Supercomputer Made a Lousy Tutor – The 74
" Human relationships are key to learning. In the talk, she noted that students who have a person in school who cares about their learning have higher graduation rates. But still.ChatGPT now h...
How I Built This with Guy Raz: AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Google DeepMind on Apple Podcasts
"an artificial agent that can do all the kinds of cognitive tasks that people can typically do, and possibly more...Now as the Chief AGI Scientist and a co-founder of Google DeepMind, he stand...


TECH DESIGN

‎Fix This: #31 - Expanding financial access on Apple Podcasts
Whrrl uses blockchain and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help farmers maximize profits on their crops. Next, the team is joined by Matthew Davie, chief strategy officer of Kiva, an AWS Imagine Grant...
A metalens for virtual and augmented reality: Researchers develop a millimeter-size flat lens for VR and AR platforms -- ScienceDaily
Despite all the advances in consumer technology over the past decades, one component has remained frustratingly stagnant: the optical lens. Unlike electronic devices, which have gotten smaller and...


SHARE IT

The Content Every High School Student Should Learn (But Doesn’t) | Getting Smart
"three core types of skills expected by schools: core skills (typically the skills of writing, reading, mathematics, history, arts found in state standards), technological skills (industry ski...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | FranklinCovey
Our character is a composite of our habits, which factors heavily in our lives. Because habits are consistent, unconscious patterns, they constantly express our character and result in our effectiv...



8. Responsibilities and Technologies for Good

Government

Tech lobbyists are running the table on state privacy laws
If any legislation emerged that would impose stronger privacy protections, industry successfully watered it down." Brendan Bordelon and Alfred Ng report on how the tech industry has "co-o...
Nextgov - Federal Technology News and Analysis for IT Managers & Acquisition Teams
Nextgov’s editorial mission is to lead the national discussion about how technology and innovation are transforming the way government agencies serve citizens and perform vital functions. Central...


Internet of Things

This Startup Is Building the Internet of Underwater Things
WSense’s innovative networking systems are transforming how we explore ocean environments. Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a...
Casino Gets Hacked Through Its Internet-Connected Fish Tank Thermometer
"cybercriminals hacked an unnamed casino through its Internet-connected thermometer in an aquarium in the lobby of the casino.According to what Eagan claimed, the hackers exploited a vulnerabi...


Technology Philanthropy

The Next Opportunity For Tech Philanthropy: High-Growth Tech Nonprofits
"philanthropists are seeing the potential for high-growth tech nonprofits to solve our biggest social problems. Philanthropists can make smart, meaningful investments in high-growth tech nonpr...
MrBeast, Mark Rober Reteam for 'TeamSeas' Charity Fundraiser - Variety
"#TeamSeas, a crowdfunding campaign to raise $30 million to remove 30 million pounds of plastic and trash from the world’s oceans, rivers and beaches.MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson) and Rober,...


Global

OPay, Nigeria’s biggest fintech app, is SoftBank-backed - Rest of World
A revolutionary feature of OPay is its use of money transfer technology that does not rely on the traditional banking system. Anyone can transfer money via OPay — no matter what their bank is —...
Google makes good on its $1B plan to support Africa’s digital economy, but there is a long way to go | TechCrunch
Overall, Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent is focused on four key areas: providing affordable access and helpful (Google) products for Africans, supporting businesses with digital t...
Getting in touch with Global Education - BBC News
"The BBC's Global Education series looks at education from an international perspective. It examines how education is shaping the future in different ways around the world. It is the succe...


Data Visualization

Mapping the Biggest Tech Talent Hubs in the U.S. and Canada
cities like San Francisco and New York remain centers of tech talent and innovation, many other cities are growing extremely quickly in terms of the tech labor pool.This infographic draws from a re...
What is Information Visualization? — updated 2023 | IxDF
Information visualization plays an important role in making data digestible and turning raw information into actionable insights. It draws from the fields of human-computer interaction, visual desi...
Mastering Interactive Data Visualization + Examples - Venngage
Whether it’s finance data presented on a dashboard, geospatial data on a color-coded map or inventory statistics in an animated pie chart, interactive data visualization brings the art of storyte...




9. Anytime, Anywhere

Mobile

Overview  |  Lighthouse  |  Chrome for Developers
run Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools, from the command line, or as a Node module. You give Lighthouse a URL to audit, it runs a series of audits against the page, and then it generates a report on how...
Page-oscope: Preview Websites on Various Phones
Try the MobileMoxie Page-oscope without logging in...You can use it for free 3 times per day. TEST MOBILE LANDING PAGES ON MORE THAN 50 IOS & ANDROID DEVICESEmulate your mobile landing pages in...


Smart Photos

Take Great Photos With an IPhone : 9 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
"Before you take a photo, there are a few things you should do: Turn your phone's brightness ALL THE WAY up. This will ensure that you're seeing the best possible version of the pho...
Dazzling hand-held winners of the 2023 Mobile Photography Awards
With today's smartphones, everyone's got a monster of a digital camera in their pocket at all times. The result has been an utter decimation in camera sales, which peaked around 2010 and ha...


Food

Our Story | Goodr
We believe that hunger isn’t a scarcity issue. It’s a matter of logistics. Goodr was founded on the simple yet powerful idea that we need to feed more and waste less. What started as a local in...
8 Innovative Food Technology Trends for 2023 | FoodSafe Drains
food technology trends have transformed the food and beverage manufacturing industry and associated businesses from within, leading to beneficial changes and improvements across the board. These tr...


Apps

Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities | Reading Rockets
The right app can help a child with dyslexia or other reading-based learning disabilities practice literacy and learning skills, while having fun. This collection of apps supports kids who struggle...
‎GuidiGO on the App Store
GuidiGO is your personal tour guide to the world. GuidiGO allows you to experience your destination like never before. Download guided tours created by cultural institutions, local experts, and pas...


MIXED REALITY (XREALITY)

360°, Northern lights in Norway, 12К video - YouTube
"Don't forget that this is 360° video: you can change the angle of view.Lying north of the Arctic circle within the severe waters of the Norwegian sea, the Lofoten archipelago is known fo...
Google Arts & Culture
"Step inside a galleryWith Augmented RealityDiscover Indian MiniaturesSee the tiny works up closeInside the Jean Pigozzi CollectionArt from Africa to JapanGetty Museum: Immersive ExperienceDis...
Immersive Web Developer Home
The WebXR Device API provides access to input (pose information from headset and controllers) and output (hardware display) capabilities commonly associated with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented...


MOOC

Free courses - OpenLearn - Open University
"Free coursesProduced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. We offer nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subjec...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) - The College of St. Scholastica
"The future of higher education is online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are classes that are offered online, free of charge. Students progress through the course material at their own p...



10. Technology Advances, Social Trends - share

TRENDS

‎How I Built This with Guy Raz: HIBT Lab! Tala: Shivani Siroya on Apple Podcasts
"common justification banks used to deny loans to the entrepreneurs Shivani Siroya supported through her work with the United Nations. While it’s not unusual for a tech startup to raise mill...
Top 5 Web Design Trends in 2021 - YouTube
2021 is going to be another important year for web designing since the outbreak has forced lots of business to have online presence. So in this video we're going to talk about 5 web design tren...
Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2023
Digital Immune SystemApplied ObservabilityAI Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRISM)Industry Cloud PlatformsPlatform EngineeringWireless-Value RealizationSuperappsAdaptive AI Metaverse Susta...
99% Invisible: Articles of Interest: American Ivy on Apple Podcasts
about what we wear. investigates our collectively held beliefs about fashion and explores topics like style that keeps coming back again. insightful take on the clothing industry, for fashion ner...


FUTURE

What is Web3 and Why It Matters | On Digital Strategy | Dion Hinchcliffe
the future of the Web, especially as it relates to creating, storing, and exchanging information, can be better achieved by incorporating decentralization based on blockchains. That’s really it,...
OPay, Nigeria’s biggest fintech app, is SoftBank-backed - Rest of World
A revolutionary feature of OPay is its use of money transfer technology that does not rely on the traditional banking system. Anyone can transfer money via OPay — no matter what their bank is —...
Future technology: 22 ideas about to change our world
Technology moves at a relentlessly fast pace in the modern world. It can sometimes feel like every single day there are new technologies and innovations that will change our futures forever. But in...


ROBOTICS

Design and Build a Robot in Less Than an Hour With Tinkercad & Arduino
designing and constructing a robot within a tight time frame—just under an hour. The catch? They can only utilize a single actuator, a lone sensor, and one Arduino.To add a playful twist, I creat...
Adorable buddy bot aims for the hearts and minds of future roboticists
"A desktop companion. An open-source education platform. An AI-powered robotics lab. Doly is all that and more. "fusion of companionship, education, and technological innovation." It...
Humanoid/quadruped transformer throws boxes like a baggage handler
"Standing up leaves its front legs free to act as arms. And while it would be totally possible to have a set of hands tucked away that could fold out for dextrous manipulation in humanoid mode...



11. Final projects

Groups

Best Communication Strategies for Virtual Group Projects | Fuse Classroom
Online group projects prepare students for the modern workplace, where virtual teamwork and collaboration are indispensable. Nevertheless, one can succeed in a virtual group project if the team mem...
Top Innovation Activities to Try
These activities are designed to help organizations get started with innovation.Our ability to adapt and innovate is essential in an ever-changing technological landscape. Businesses and organizati...
Peer assessment and groups formation in massive open online courses - Haddadi - 2018 - Computer Applications in Engineering Education - Wiley Online Library
new method of peer assessment for MOOCs to improve the accuracy and exactitude of the learner grade. Our proposition is based on three main steps: the formation of learner groups, the assessment an...



12. Peer reviews

PEER REVIEW

Peer Review: 5 Smart Tips for Providing Constructive Feedback - Enago Academy
Constructive criticism can vary across reviews, but the underlying motive is to support and strengthen the writing in progress. Referees must walk a proverbial tightrope to provide strategically ar...
How-to: Peer Feedback 1 - YouTube
In this four-part series, we will introduce you to the concept of Peer Feedback (PF) and cover how to use it to enhance your own language learning. Part 1: Why Peer Feedback (PF)? https://youtu...
60-Second Strategy: TAG Feedback | Edutopia
TAG feedback. T, tell something you like. A, ask a question. G, give a suggestion.always start with a positive, something that the student did well. Then A, ask a question. Why did you make this de...
Common Guidelines for Peer-Review
If you are the writer, think of peer-review as a way to test how well your writing is working. Keep an open mind and be prepared for criticism. Even the best writers have room for improvement. Even...