Last week we talked about the role the iPad can play in helping college students learn. What about the Kindle? Written off upon the introduction of the iPad, sales of Amazon’s reading device sales have resurrected and Amazon now sells more Kindle books than it does hardcover, even though they’ve been selling hardcover books for [...]

Will the iPad help college students learn? That’s the question many colleges will be trying to answer this year as they pilot its use on their campuses. Oklahoma State, Duke, and Northwest Kansas Technical College are among many schools carrying out tests. In fact, Northwest Kansas is giving iPads to the entire undergraduate population of [...]

At a time when new technologies are emerging at an eye-popping rate (the iPad and the Phone 4.0 to name two), it can be hard to understand and keep track of the relevance, and value they deliver.  And that also means being able to look beyond the headlines, to examine more closely the substance, and [...]

With the many exciting developments in education reform, education technology, and venture investing during the past year, we are indeed on track for what Tom Vander Ark calls the Decade of the Edupreneur. We’re now in a world where the levers of business are used to solve the big, meaty problems facing education. Where a [...]

A recent story from Network World entitled, “Why Computer science students cheat.” Has itself become a story as it generated a firestorm of commentary in the educational blogosphere. The original story talked about how first-year computer science students are the most likely students to be caught cheating. The growing popularity and size of introductory computer-science [...]

Ed. note:  We’re thrilled to provide a guest post by Anya Kamenetz, author of DIY U. Anya Kamenetz, author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. One of the biggest blocks to understanding how education might look in the future is an invisible assumption that learning has to be boring [...]

We’ve written consistently here about the changing landscape of higher education, the role technology will have in enabling and driving change, and how students are the ones who will shape and drive the form and function of learning. And what better voice to bring into this conversation than Anya Kamenetz, author of DIY U: Edupunks, [...]

As we have written here before, change is scary.  It provokes a desire to hold on to the here and now, the stable and secure.  The problem with big significant change is that there’s just is no stable and secure to hold on to. It’s like trying to hold back the tide.  Just look at [...]

You may have seen an interesting article in the New York Times last Saturday about the essential role of determination and discipline in acquiring talent. There’s been a lot written over the last few years about how talent is neither innate nor immutable; we can develop it through determination, grit, and practice. Author Malcom Gladwell, who [...]

There’s been increased media attention lately regarding banning laptops during lectures, highlighting a messy, messy confluence of technology and changing consumer (student) behavior. The argument made by some professors is pretty simple. A professor at the Georgetown law school boils it down like this, “This is like putting on every student’s desk, when you walk [...]