Digital Learning

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at a...

As we push forward with the digital transformation of education, it's worth taking a look at just how greatly technology can impact teaching and learning in this country.

The game industry is -- or should be -- a career target for today's female students in elementary and secondary schools as well as in higher education.

Digital learning is the new disruptor and a game changer for education. But, like all innovations, it must be channeled to the end-user's interest.

A generation from now, the show-what-you-know category may be as important as diplomas. In the meantime, it will be fun to watch.

Online assessment will power the future of customized learning -- the best chance we have to dramatically boost achievement levels.

If you brought a teacher back from 50 years ago and put her in a university classroom today she would be able to pick up exactly where she left off. The classroom experience has barely changed. This is a pretty sad state of affairs

Few educators would argue against the importance of using media and technology in the classroom. Yet, we have made very little progress in implementing any media literacy curriculum on a national, or even statewide, level.

WASHINGTON -- Are hardbound textbooks going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools? Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Federal Communicat...

Amidst the cool technology demonstrations, shiny gadgets, and debates about online learning, it's essential not to overlook the country's most expensive -- and perhaps most ambitious -- initiative to use digital technology.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah classrooms may soon be making the switch to open-source online textbooks that can be cheaper and easier to update. The Utah St...

When it comes to technology, the perception is that it is the least important area in which to invest precious funds. This is why the time is now to seriously consider developing a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) initiative.

Digital learning won't close the achievement gap, but it will lift the floor. More students will be more academically successful. Five years from now, a higher percentage of students will soon graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

Despite the challenges, 2011 was a real turning point for innovations in learning.

By almost every educational measure, the Agora Cyber Charter School is failing. Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math. N...

This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. Students whose high schools ...

Indiana's superintendent of public instruction is suggesting one more high school graduation requirement, one that means kids won't be showing up in t...

Matt Richtel's Sunday feature in The New York Times did a disservice to the field of personal digital learning. Richtel knows well the case for digital learning; he just chose to leave it out.

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Eleanor Yang Su Teachers who once shunned the idea of students citing Wikipedia on cla...

With the shift from print to digital and from information scarcity to abundance, there's no reason to be limited to a single instructional resource. That's why I'm a skeptic about digital textbooks.

With more than one million students enrolled in online courses at the K-12 level in 2008 technology in education means much more than "computer lab." I spoke recently with Knezek about how he sees the evolving learning landscape.

NEW YORK -- Anastacia Brie, a science teacher at New York City's Hudson High School of Learning Technologies, recently realized why she wasn't trippin...

Will these tools to help students go further, faster and be available to kids who have the farthest to go?

Fix or replace? The answer is both. The U.S. is rapidly falling behind the rest of the industrial world. We need to work inside and outside the system. We need rapid reform and reinvention.