The program will not allow students to earn an M.I.T. degree. Instead, those who are able to exhibit a mastery of the subjects taught on the platform will receive an official certificate of completion. The certificate will obviously not carry the weight of a traditional M.I.T. diploma, but it will provide an incentive to finish the online material. According to the New York Times,in order to prevent confusion, the certificate will be a credential bearing the distinct name of a new not-for-profit body that will be created within M.I.T.
December 30th, 2011
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All – Forbes
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July 10th, 2011
Apple Files Patents for Augmented Reality, Transparent Screen – Mobiledia
Pance goes on to explain that the digital overlays, which add information to whatever picture the transparent screen captures, “may be transmitted onto a display screen that overlays a museum exhibit, such as a painting.”
“The overlay may include information relating to the painting that may be useful or interesting to viewers of the exhibit,” he added. In other words, Apples new iPads may allow people to point them at physical objects and instantly receive onscreen information about those objects.
via Apple Files Patents for Augmented Reality, Transparent Screen – Mobiledia.
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July 8th, 2011
Enforces hegemony, these buttons do..
we like in crowds, all for the same reason, and this ties us together making manifest a narrow band of reoccurrence that longs for a differentiation
we dislike – we hate this, or that, for our own internal reasons – often tied to belief, bias, or disgust, but we dislike discretely, with purpose and – at times, with emotional intensity lacking in the more congenial ‘like’ or ‘+1′ or ‘plug’ – tagfoot’s upkick, stumbleupon’s stumbles, tumblr, digg – all of these tend toward a unilateral or scale, at times useful in a burrowing, termite culture sort of way – moving through the chaos which is daily data dumps, files, creations, media, and news
by publcindividual | Posted in Interstitial Spaces | Comments Off | Tags: +1, digg, dislike, hate, like, stumbleupon
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