We need to stop pandering to our "digital native" students and provide structures and platforms that better enable their success.
Jeff Selingo | Posted 05.03.2012
What happens to the value of the college degree when top universities are essentially giving away some of their courses free?
Delia Lloyd | Posted 05.02.2012
Increasingly, we are delegating tasks to computers that even now, seem like they couldn't possibly be automated.
AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 05.02.2012
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at a...
Robert Sun | Posted 04.18.2012
I am convinced that urban children, with their indomitable spirit and inexhaustible supply of grit, are the keys to uplifting and rebuilding our nation to its former glory.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 04.16.2012
Phil Regier runs a big online college of working adults. He pays attention to completion rates. President Obama set a goal of regaining the number-o...
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 04.07.2012
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.
Anne L. Bryant | Posted 05.22.2012
We are hearing a lot about online learning and virtual schools, a field that is growing fast -- perhaps too fast. As educators we must be vigilant to distinguish between promising practices and flat-out corruption and greed.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 04.28.2012
Last week I visited Arizona's largest school, Primavera Online. Headquartered in Chandler, Primavera serves primarily upper division students seeking an alternative pathway to graduation.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 04.22.2012
Your history teacher probably told you the printing press was a turning point in human history. Just watch what the shift to digital learning will do.
Susan Gilbert | Posted 04.17.2012
Can we apply the lessons of Adam Smith to higher education? Can colleges be compared to tee shirt factories? These are the burning questions of our times, at least for those of us in higher education.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 04.10.2012
Students spend 20 to 50 percent of their time online. The Bay Area's Rocketship Education is a high-performing elementary network where students spend two hours per day in a computer lab. KIPP Empower in Los Angeles has classroom centers that students rotate through.
Bill Tucker | Posted 04.01.2012
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.
Murray Rosenbaum | Posted 03.28.2012
I have been formulating this idea -- which may become a later blog post -- that if you make difficult things in life into games, people will gladly do them.
Jeff Selingo | Posted 03.27.2012
Hardly a week goes by when we don't hear another announcement that has the potential to chip away at the student market that is currently the lifeblood of colleges on the margins, in both quality and financial health.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 03.20.2012
Taking an online course in high school is a learning experience in the digital age that will prepare students for online learning in college or career where the stakes for success are much higher.
Shai Reshef | Posted 03.17.2012
The recent tragedy of the stampeding death of a prospective student's mother and the mile-long line for individuals looking for last-chance spots at South Africa's public universities serves to highlight the importance of opening access to higher education.
Don Tapscott | Posted 03.13.2012
What will happen in 2012? In the spirit of the aphorism "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved," let me suggest 20 transformations.
US News And World Report/The Huffington Post | Katy Hopkins | Posted 03.13.2012
For busy folks seeking a college or graduate degree, online education may seem like an attractive route that can cater to their lifestyles. Profession...
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 03.11.2012
The real cost of producing college and career ready graduates depends on the student population and the risk factors they bring to school. We need to align state funding systems with our academic goals and create incentives for the services we want to see.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 03.10.2012
It would be easy and cheap to administer online multiple choice tests. But if we take seriously the demands of the idea economy and the associated expectations of the Common Core, we must to do better.
Anne Hill | Posted 03.04.2012
It is not important that you know everything, either in life or in business. But it is important to know where to find the answers you need.
Salman Khan | Posted 01.07.2012
Just as YouTube serves as the world's archive of the human experience, so too can it serve as the world's biggest and most thrilling classroom.
Posted 02.22.2012
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Tom Vander Ark | Posted 02.20.2012
Despite the challenges, 2011 was a real turning point for innovations in learning.
Robert Schwartz | Posted 05.17.2012