Gross National Happiness Gross National Happiness (GNH) is a unique development philosophy pioneered by Bhutan, emphasising holistic well-being over purely economic growth. Coined by Bhutan’s fourth King, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in the 1970s, GNH focuses on balancing material progress with spiritual, emotional, and environmental well-being. Investment in Cryptocurrency In a surprising turn, Bhutan …
The above charts illustrate types of the Learning Management Systems (LMS) used across 40 Australian Universities as of 6 October 2017. Among the platforms Blackboard is the most popular LMS with 23 Australian Universities using it as their core learning management systems. 12 of these Australian Universities are using Moodle. Three universities (University of Sydney, …
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Digital Tools for Researchers In today’s 21 century world, the use of emerging technologies is ever growing, from that in industries to academics and research. Digital tools and applications would assist academics and researchers with organising and analysing their research process, and make sense of the data being collected. Below are some of the digital …
Microsoft launched Office 2016 for Mac on 9 July 2015, which is available to Office 365 subscribers. While the new Office for Mac provides users with some wonderful new functionalities it is not a good news for EndNote users. EndNote is currently not compatible with office 2016 on Mac. We highly advise EndNote and Mac …
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Web based technology is increasingly growing. Internet and Social Media is a great place to share news, connect with friends and do online shopping. The speed of the Internet has led us to be flexible and changing in life style and how we communicate with each other. Facebook is the world’s most popular social networking website. It …
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I am glad to have invited on board as one of the 100 co-authors on a joint article on global perspective towards education technologies (ET). This study explores non-economic profitisation of scholarship involved with the academic domain of ET. The best part of the article is its innovative study approach – 100 ET scholars across the globe …
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Emerging technologies are fast growing. In teaching and learning information and communication technologies (ICT) have advanced the use of video conferencing, search engine databases, cloud and mobile computing, and other technologies in education contexts, with no exception to Social Media as an emerging technology in learning and teaching. In today’s world, as learning is becoming increasingly digital, …
Internet and their use in schools, and university settings have become popular with the invention of social media in Education. Edudemic [1], an educational website for Education Technology Tips for Students and Teachers, has put up together a bunch of articles on Social Media in Education. Of the two articles, Pulkit [2] discusses about Social …
This post highlights how Generation Baby Boomers, X, Y and Z view and live their life with Social Media and Internet in particular and Technology in general. Baby Boomers Generation Born: 1946-1964 Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post-wrold war II bay boom. Narcissism and a focus on self-help and skepticism over media …
Big Data: Analysis of recent NSW bushfires tweets (Oct 2013) Recently, I have developed a keen interest in these areas of research and been exploring some of data-mining tools such as R-Studio and CLUTO. There are oceans of information out there on the net. One of the most interesting things about big data is the …
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