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Living in Germany: students fare worse than ever in PISA school tests

The PISA 2022 study revealed declining scores for German students in math, reading, and science. The results highlight social disparities and lack of linguistic support for immigrant students.

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Education in Brazil: Distance learning grows 474% in a decade

The number of entrants in higher undergraduate courses through distance education (EaD) increased by 474% compared to 23.4% decrease in face-to-face courses.

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Shape: A Film About Design

If, for one day, you had the power to make your world work better, what would you change?

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Information Technology in Brazil: team of Brazilian students win “Programming World Cup”

A team of Brazilian students who invented a software that creates custom clothes automatically for every body type was chosen the winner of the 2015 Imagine Cup […]

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Information Technology in Brazil: universities scoring well in the “Programming World Cup”

The Brazilian Military Institute of Engineering (IME) finished the “World Cup of Programming”, closed on Wednesday (25) as the best university in Latin America in this year. Another highlight of the tournament was the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) — my alma mater — who finished 36th […]

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Information Technology in Brazil: students win Imagine Cup from Microsoft

The design of an application for Skype, created by a group of university students from São Paulo, was one of the winners of the 11th worldwide Imagine Cup competition, sponsored by Microsoft with 800 students around the world to encourage innovation […]

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Information Technology in Brazil: university in the northeast is the best in Latin America on programming competition

Team from Campina Grande beat renowned universities like UFPE, USP e ITA. Participants had their resumes selected for internship at Facebook […]

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Watch “Cynthia Breazeal’s “The rise of personal robots” talk at TED

As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds robots that teach, learn — and play. Watch for amazing demo footage of a new interactive game for kids […]

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Interaction Design Association (IxDA) 2010 Global Student Competition: Submissions open

Submissions are now open for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) Global Student Interaction Design Competition. Submissions are due by November 30th, 23:59, US/PST. This competition is the first of its kind: IxDA will bring 5 finalists to Interaction 10 | Savannah, the 3rd Annual International Conference co-hosted by the Savannah College of Art & Design where they will compete head to head to find a winner. All finalists will be given a full scholarship for attending the conference.

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Autodesk Offers Wide Variety of Resources and Support for Education Community

The beginning of the new academic year is here and Autodesk, is expanding its support for students and educators as they return to campus. Autodesk has announced that it is increasing access to its 2010 offerings, valuable curricula and additional resources for student and teacher communities […]