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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]