http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:04:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/douglas-rushkoff-social-media-week.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:30:03 +0000 Best-selling author Douglas Rushkoff, shares his thoughts about how Facebook and Twitter spark local movements rather than large-scale ones -- in the kick off to our Social Media Week coverage.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/cheap-accessible-higher-education.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:10:32 +0000 The Faculty Project curates free online lectures by professors from top universities. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/sensor-embedded-kitchen-utensils-gamifies-cooking-for-future-chefs-future-of-gaming.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:10:41 +0000 The French Digital Kitchen is an innovative cooking environment that features cooking utensils and ingredient containers with digitally embedded sensors alongside interactive displays, which track and evaluate a student’s activity.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/virginia-tech-newspaper-used-twitter-for-continuous-publishing-headlines.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:45:14 +0000 The university's paper was able to publish updates during and after the shooting via tweets, gaining 18,000 followers in a few hours.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/college-students-make-new-connections-with-yapik.html Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:03:52 +0000 Net Element launched a pilot social networking site that helps college students find what they need within their campuses.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/bike-repair-station-at-university-encourages-students-to-go-green.html Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:37:59 +0000 The University of Virginia provides easy access to tools and an air pump to students on campus. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/smart-shirt-can-wirelessly-monitor-vital-signs.html Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:25:15 +0000 While most patients have to use intrusive wires to monitor their vital signs, a research team in the Carlos III University in Spain is developing a shirt that provides both comfort and biometric information using wireless technology. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/need-to-know-10-must-read-posts-of-the-week-vol-9.html Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:01:13 +0000 A Bing Initiative: A weekly round-up of the top ten most popular posts on PSFK--from culture to technology, art to business, this list has it all.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/university-uses-groupon-to-attract-new-students.html Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:35:25 +0000 A private university in the U.S. has become the first education institute to offer a discount on one of its course using the group buying platform. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/uncommon-peer-to-peer-consultancy-helps-you-prepare-for-college.html Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:25:11 +0000 A group of undergraduates band together to create a means of assisting high school students in their grueling college applications. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/students-post-on-wikipedia-for-class-projects.html Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:40:17 +0000 Teachers are embracing Wikipedia as a writing and research tool used for class projects.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/the-mit-index-stats-on-the-students.html Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:00:11 +0000 MIT releases a student's index that illustrate the varying dynamics of the MIT student population. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/class-of-2011-the-most-indebted-of-all-time.html Wed, 18 May 2011 09:01:30 +0000 The average student re-paying loans this year will owe $22, 900.00 nearly double the amount of ten years ago.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/university-of-michigan-creates-new-millimeter-scale-computing-system.html Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:04:38 +0000 A prototype implantable eye pressure monitor opens doors for advanced microcomputer technology.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/the-death-of-the-computer-lab.html Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:25:24 +0000 Traditional college computer labs are being phased out in favor of more flexible work spaces.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/samsung-seeds-mobile-charging-stations-across-americas-future.html Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:01:01 +0000 Samsung recently announced that it will be installing mobile charging stations across several major American universities.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/new-college-board-policy-revamps-sat-score-reporting.html Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:21:40 +0000 The College Board has implemented a new SAT policy this year called Score Choice. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/straighterline-all-you-can-learn-for-99-a-month.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:50:43 +0000 StraighterLine is a new kind of remote education company, offering online college courses in basic subjects such as math, accounting and writing at an extremely low flat rate of $99 a month.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/life-after-retirement-leads-back-to-college.html Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:57:02 +0000 Harvard has recently launched a new one year academic program to serve the growing number of retired professionals who aren’t ready to lead lives filled with early bird specials and afternoon golf games, but instead want to involve themselves with creating social change. The program, called the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, is a collaboration among five of the university’s professional schools — business, law, government, education and public health. It is seen as a next stage for universities, beyond undergraduate and then graduate and professional schools. If successful, Harvard professors say, it can serve as a model for schools atRead more...]]>