Monday, March 31, 2014

Black Entrepreneurs Moving to the Internet

Last updated: Monday 3/31/14 @ 1:35 am
Amidst the stupefying haze of endless chatter in recent decades by suits and skirts with high flown titles and pedigreed academic credentials about the importance of getting more blacks into STEM, more black males into STEM, more black females into STEM, a grass roots movement is surging into the foreground of black consciousness that is tightly focused by a common sense understanding of the obvious implications of the headlines in the Journal, the Times, and Bloomberg.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

"Weekly Dozens" Magazine -- Saturday 3/29/14

Last updated: Sunday 3/30/14 @ 2:02 pm
Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 3/29/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

"Weekly Dozens" Magazine -- Saturday 3/22/14

Last updated: Tuesday 3/25/14 @ 12:57 pm
Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU and other media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 3/22/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

HBCU Symposium in Silicon Valley #2 -- March 2014

Last updated on Sunday 3/23/14 @ 9:45 pm - Eastern Daylight

In the Fall 2013 some HBCUs met in Silicon Valley under the auspices of UNCF to spur innovation and entrepreneurship by HBCUs in the kinds of entrepreneurial development of innovations that have made Silicon Valley America's most important center of high technology since the early 1960s, from Intel to Apple to Google to Facebook. In March 2014 fifteen HBCUs are holding a second symposium in Silicon Valley to build on the success of their first get-together. The second is described in the following article in Diverse issues (3/20/14):
Fortunately, some of the participants (and Internet observers) at both symposiums shared their comments on Twitter using the hashtag #hbcuinnovation. The following tweets have been posted under this hashtag so far in the last two days. Let's hope that more participants who are physically attending will post lots more tweets for the benefit of that those of us who can't attend ... :-)

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Community Organizing for Academic Innovation

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

"Weekly Dozens" Magazine -- Saturday 3/15/14

Last updated: Sunday 3/16/14 @ 3:50 pm
Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 3/22/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

Friday, March 14, 2014

Statistics about U.S. Online Courses and Programs

Last updated: Friday 3/14/14 @ 2:36 pm
This note provides links to three sources of information about the number of accredited U.S. colleges and universities with online offerings and the number of online courses and online programs they offer

Monday, March 10, 2014

"Weekly Dozens" Magazine -- Saturday 3/8/14

Last updated: Sunday 3/9/14 @ 4:00 pm
Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite academic news items posted by HBCU media on Twitter about HBCUs' teaching, research, and community service for the week ending Saturday 3/22/14 ... in chronological order from latest to earliest ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues ... Note that back issues can be searched for old tweets.

Friday, March 07, 2014

Twitter for the Twitterless ... :-)

Media list last updated: Friday 3/7/14 @ 10:16 am
Welcome to the HBCU news Twitterverse!!! This page enables readers who don't have Twitter accounts to read tweets from the HBCU media ... :-)

Thursday, March 06, 2014

HBCUs on iTunes U

Last updated: Thursday 3/6/14 @ 2:34 pm
Which of the 106 HBCUs are on iTunes U? The following HBCUs were found on the list of members displayed by running the app for iTunes U on an iPad Mini. As higher education becomes more mobile whether the courses are blended or 100 percent online, course delivery will shift from PCs and laptops to tablets, phablets, and smart phones. While iTunes is not the only mobile platform, it will probably remain one of the most important for the foreseeable future.