Online Universities: Why They Still Don't Measure Up
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Articles tagged "E-Learning"
Fri, 9 November 2012
Wed, 24 October 2012
Can't Make The Meeting? Send Your Robot Instead
Remotely piloted telepresence robots could be the beginning of another tech revolution. Some observers are already predicting that they will…
Tue, 23 October 2012
ReadWrite DeathWatch: One Laptop Per Child
One Laptop Per Child puts computers in the hands of the world's most vulnerable children to help educate them out of poverty. It's a noble…
Fri, 5 October 2012
The Dark Side Of The Online Struggle Against Plagiarism
College students are under a lot of pressure, what with classes, resident activities, helicopter parents and a none-too-rosy job market…
Tue, 25 September 2012
Brain Training: Taking A Look At Lumosity
An unusual idea for improving mental capabilities continues to gain investments and fans. I might be one of the new fans, too. A small…
Thu, 20 September 2012
Why Wikipedia Does Belong in the Classroom
The proper place of social media in the classroom remains a mystery to most people, with Wikipedia standing as the biggest, baddest new…
Wed, 12 September 2012
Why Wikipedia Doesn't Belong In The Classroom
Wikipedia's stated goal to be a neutral fact-based encyclopedia has enabled it to accumulate an incredible amount of useful information. But…
Tue, 10 July 2012
Microsoft's Imagine Cup Student Software Contest Holds Lessons for Startups
The 10th annual student software contest, Microsoft's Imagine Cup, is wrapping up in Sydney, Australia, and there are some important lessons…
Fri, 29 June 2012
ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble remains a big player in a growing industry, and until Google changed everything this week, it made fantastic hardware for…
Thu, 7 June 2012
Millennials: They Aren’t So Tech Savvy After All
Conventional wisdom has it that kids and young adults now coming of age have been so steeped in everything from video games to social…
Wed, 6 June 2012
Bandwidth Bottlenecks Stifle Pervasive Networks
If pervasive networks, cloud computing and big data are going to deliver on their promise - to make increasingly vast quantities of…
Fri, 4 May 2012
How Harvard and MIT Could Boost Graduation Rates and Cut Student Loan Defaults
Harvard and MIT are offering free online classes, so tens of thousands of people still stinging from getting rejected a year, a decade or…
Wed, 2 May 2012
For Social Media In The Classroom To Work, Instructors Need Best Practices
I’m writing this post to procrastinate grading the last batch of final papers that are sifting into my inbox. After one year of being a…
Mon, 30 April 2012
Microsoft's Nook Deal Boosts B&N, Challenges Android, Doesn't Help Consumers
So much for Barnes & Noble's standing up to Microsoft's "anticompetitive scheme" against Android. One year after their nasty patent spat…
Sun, 22 April 2012
How the iPad Is Changing Education
The iPad may only be two years old, but it's already begun to change many things. Reading is one of them. Work is another. It is selling…
Tue, 17 April 2012
Solving College With Big Data
College is stuck in the past, and tech is always trying to tow it out of the mud. The trick is finding a solution that provides more…
Thu, 5 April 2012
How Preteens Use Web Apps to Collaborate
Teenagers aren't the only ones on the Internet. Preteens, which we are classifying as kids ages 9-12, are growing up with easy access to…
A Museum Math Exhibit That Has Withstood the Test of Time
If you weren't old enough to remember the 1964 New York World's Fair, you still have a chance to see one of the more wonderful exhibits that…
Wed, 4 April 2012
Teaching Preteens How to Navigate the Web
Every day the Internet is becoming a more ingrained part of preteens' lives, especially preteens who haven't yet hit Facebook's 13-years-old…
Thu, 29 March 2012
KidReports Keeps a Record of Your Little One
It's the middle of the afternoon, and you have a sudden pang in your side. What is my two-year-old doing right now?, you wonder. You want to…
Wed, 14 March 2012
My Adieu to Britannica Print
In our story yesterday on Encyclopedia Britannica's demise, we covered the basics. Jim Romenesko asked Britannica.com editor Charlie Madigan…
Tue, 13 March 2012
Britannica Stops Printing
So many things about printed encyclopedias seem insane now. The space that dozens of volumes takes up. How much an entire set weighs (well…
Thu, 23 February 2012
Books Continue to Evolve - E.O. Wilson's 'Life on Earth'
Last month Apple announced iBooks 2, the next generation of its e-book app for iPhone and iPad. iBooks 2 was notable for the launch of a new…
Mon, 20 February 2012
Obstacles to Digital Classrooms
OnlineUniversities.com came out with an optimistic infographic last week about how college classrooms are going digital. But as someone who…
