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Degreed Wants To Jailbreak The College Degreeview story

http://techcrunch.com – There’s a lot of buzz about how new education platforms are making it easy to acquire the kind of skills that, traditionally, have been reserved for the hallowed halls of higher education. (IT news)

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Study: Want To Reduce Partisanship? Make Font Harder To Readview story

http://techcrunch.com – A new study shows that the media can significantly reduce partisan bias by simply making the text more difficult to read. Researchers found that participants in two different studies became more moderate on issues of Muslim rights and capital punishment when they were forced to read an eye-straining, light-grey, vertically stretched front. (IT news)

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“In the Studio,” Bump’s David Lieb Discusses Flock And A Shift To Background Servicesview story

http://techcrunch.com – Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and has been a contributor to TechCrunch since January 2011. (IT news)

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WD eases student budgets with 20% discountview story

http://www.itwire.com – Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Home IThere's nothing new about offering discounts to tertiary students and staff - Apple's been doing it for decades, to give just one example. But we haven't previously heard of a storage vendor taking that route. (IT news)

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With 4.5M Users, Instructure Takes On The Courseras & Udacities Of The World With Its Own Open Course Networkview story

http://techcrunch.com – Instructure launched Canvas in 2011 to give educational institutions an alternative to the ubiquitous (but much criticized) software of educational giants like Blackboard. (IT news)

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Is anyone have a ZTE droidMobile?view story

http://forum.xda-developers.com – ZTE is famous in China, and is cheaper than HTC, SAMSUNG, LG, etc... as a poor student, I choose my Zte phone.what about you? Did you ever have a zte equipment? :what: Sent from my ZTE N881E using xda premium (HowTos)

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Gallows Humorview story

http://techcrunch.com – “Palmer was hanged outside Stafford Prison on 14th June 1856, watched by an enormous crowd of some 30,000 people. (IT news)

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Is there any way to facilitate switching windows in Ubuntu?view story

http://askubuntu.com – I'm just a student who received my laptop from my uncle, who's a coder, so I'm still getting used to working with ubuntu. I recently upgraded ubuntu from an earlier version, and everything seems to be pretty great. The only thing is that when I open a program, or file, or whatever, it takes up the whole screen. I can only close it by going to the far top left of my screen, or by ctrl+W. (HowTos)

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Facebook app reels in international studentsview story

http://www.itwire.com – Written by: David Swan | Published in: Business ITSlowing international student numbers are still a problem for Australia's universities, but one app developer may have an answer. (IT news)

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Y Combinator Of Education Imagine K12 Launches Its 3rd Cohort, Bringing The Digital Revolution To Classrooms Near Youview story

http://techcrunch.com – The number of startup accelerators has grown exponentially over the last few years. There are now over 100 of them scattered throughout the U.S. — a fairly dramatic increase from 2007, when there were just about four, according to Y Combinator’s estimates. Today, when it seems that every vertical — mobile, gaming, hardware, etc. (IT news)