Hack Education

Following the launch of the iPad last spring, many schools made headlines by announcing their plans to distribute the devices to teachers and students and to incorporate the iPad into coursework. Now that the fall term is over, several of those schools are reporting on what was, for many, the...

Pearson announced today that it was buying a controlling stake in the Indian online tutoring company TutorVisa for $127 million. Pearson had acquired a minority stake in the five-year-old company in the summer of 2010. Here's the obligatory quotation from a Pearson executive in today's news: TutorVista is an innovative...

Cross-posted at The Huffington Post Many analysts are predicting 2011 will be the year of the tablet. And in his keynote address at CES's Higher Ed Tech Summit last week, The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg said that he anticipates a deluge of tablets on campuses. They won't all be...

I've never really understood those who respond to Wikipedia with vitriol or prohibition. Sure, the site has some flaws. But I still think it's an amazing project - a fairly radical experiment in knowledge-making and knowledge curation. And as such, I'm always particularly surprised when I hear educators blast Wikipedia....

Student enrollment at University of Phoenix dropped by 42% in the last quarter of 2010 and its parent company Apollo Group believes that this drop may be only the beginning. Arizona Republic's Jahna Berry reports that the company expects enrollment figures to fall by as much as 40% this quarter,...

HUGE: OCW Scholar: MIT OpenCourseWare with the Learner in Mind MIT OpenCourseWare announced the availability of its OCW Scholar courses this week, an announcement that I was reluctant to write EXCLUSIVE or HUGE in the headline for my RWW story but folks, this is a really big deal. MIT OCW...

The social learning network OpenStudy announced today it has partnered with Open Yale and New York University's Open Education program. These universities will use OpenStudy to supplement the following online open courses: Open Yale: Financial Markets with Professor Robert Shiller Fundamentals of Physics with Professor Ramamurti Shankar Introduction to Ancient...

Today students in Oregon sit down to take their standardized writing exams. And as I wrote last month, for the first time, they'll be allowed to spell-check their work before submitting their tests. The decision to allow students to use spell-check caused some outcry - the usual "kids these days"...

Google is looking for data about how Android App Investor is being used in educational settings in order to help define the project's development and outreach. If you've used App Investor (or plan to do so) as part of a school or organization in order to teach kids (or adults,...

Social learning network Edmodo announced today that it has added a new feature: parent accounts. With parent accounts, teachers will be able to communicate easily with parents, giving them access to grades, assignments, sending them notifications about upcoming due dates and missed assignments, and alerting them to school events and...