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Waterloo’s Innovation Ecosystem

While the “Ten with Ken” team was at the University of Waterloo to profile the Velocity incubator, we sat down with President & Vice-Chancellor Feridun Hamdullahpur to discuss the overall innovation ecosystem at what has been ranked Canada’s #1 most innovative university for the past 25 years. Read more

Assessing Student Competencies: Sesame

Sesame provides competency-based assessment software to primary, secondary and tertiary educators, and allows instructors to upload visual, video and text records of a student's acquired skills and competencies. Read more

Waterloo’s Velocity

Ten with Ken goes on location to the world's largest free business incubator, Waterloo's Velocity. Director Jay Shah gives us a tour of the Velocity Garage, and we speak to 4 dynamic young entrepreneurs about their startup companies. Read more

Microsoft acquires LinkedIn for $26 B

Microsoft acquires LinkedIn for $26 Billion

Expect integration of LinkedIn and MS Office/Outlook, more resources for online training,... Read more

Blackboard partners with IBM Watson

Blackboard partners with IBM Watson

IBM, Blackboard sign a strategic partnership: IBM will host worldwide data centres for Blackboard,... Read more

Pokémon GO popularizes augmented reality

Pokémon GO popularizes augmented reality

Nintendo’s Pokémon GO hits 21 million active daily users, the biggest mobile game in... Read more

"In the round" classrooms engage students up close

“In the round” classrooms engage students up close

Experimental “Phil Donahue” classrooms in new $65 M Learning Innovation Centre (LInC)... Read more

AI Tutor at Georgia Tech passes the Turing test

AI Tutor at Georgia Tech passes the Turing test

“Jill Watson” was 1 of 9 teaching assistants in an online grad course in Artificial... Read more

MIT Online Ed report urges "Learning Engineers"

MIT Online Ed report urges “Learning Engineers”

MIT’s informative new report from the Online Education Policy Initiatives includes the... Read more

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