The tools let users see and work with “near real-time” information about course registrants—minus personally identifying details—from 193 countries. A Harvard news release says the tools “showcase the potential promise” of data generated by MOOCs. The aggregated data sets that the tools use can be also downloaded.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/harvard-and-mit-release-visualization-tools-for-trove-of-mooc-data/50631?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

Chromebox for meetings, a $999 video conferencing system from Google | Ars Technica.

This looks like this could be a pretty interesting product. Our group is doing quite a few Google hangouts and improved audio and video quality might be very appreciated.