Coursera, an online learning platform developed at Stanford, continues to assume an increasingly influential role in the field of online education, but its usage at Stanford has prompted concerns among students that courses using the platform have not fully exploited its potential.
Professors at Stanford’s Human-Computer Interaction Group said that a recently announced Google concept, codenamed “Project Glass,” could give consumers access to a technology previously restricted to scientists.
A team of researchers at the Stanford Mobile and Social Computing Research Group is studying applications of a groundbreaking technology that could change the way people use their phones. This technology, called Near Field Communication (NFC), allows devices to interact in a new way and is expected to become standard in smart phones within the next five years.