U.S. News & World Reports profiles a typical online student, showing how she manages her time as a parent, a store clerk, and an undergrad.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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June 25, 2010
While the ubiquity of Web 2.0 technologies disrupts conventional notions of schooling and literacy, its impact on learning is idiosyncratic at best.
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June 24, 2010
This report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce details the types of employment expected to available in the U.S., as well as how prepared Americans will be to fill these jobs.
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June 24, 2010
IT organizations at American colleges and universities are getting clever with cost cutting. In this Campus Technology feature, two IT leaders share some of the small, creative tactics they’ve used to save hundreds of thousands of dollars for their schools while actually managing to improve services for their constituents.
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June 23, 2010
Is the role of high school always to steer students toward a four-year university or even a two-year college? Or should today’s high schools also be considering vocational training and other alternative pathways? Some educators believe students can have it both ways. In communities where students may rule out college before even applying, some U.S. high schools are employing more radical ways to keep students on the path to a higher education—while giving them the real-world skills they need to land a career if college doesn’t work out.
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June 23, 2010
EduDemic provides move beyond Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to deliver a detailed list of the 20 other social media sites that can benefit students, teachers, and higher-ed professionals.
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June 22, 2010
This paper from the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research presents the first experimental evidence on the effects of live versus Internet media of instruction. Students in a large introductory microeconomics course at a major research university were randomly assigned to live lectures versus watching these same lectures in an Internet setting, where all other factors (e.g., instruction, supplemental materials) were the same. Counter to the conclusions drawn by a recent U.S.
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June 18, 2010
