Category Archives: Online learning

New Center for Research on Digital Media and Learning

There’s little doubt that the Internet will transform schooling (read choices) and how students learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. A newly-created Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California-Irvine will explore the impact of digital media on learning and its potential for transforming education.  The Center is funded by a $2.97 million grant from [...]

Technology’s Impact on Students

Several recent articles outline the uses of technology in the classroom and give readers lots to think about.  
The first article deals with the effects of technology on students throughout their education. Lenovo to Research Tech’s Effect on Learning: Global Education Research project will study how technology affects education in and after school, from kindergarten through higher education.

Another article [...]

Online Learning: Growth and Evaluation

In a certain to be much talked about book, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, and Michael B. Horn describe how a majority of students will use online learning within a decade. They suggest we must disrupt, that is change, thinking about [...]

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Are Students Learning from Gaming and Digital Worlds?

Online Learning Rapid Growth Continues

Status of Choices in the U.S.

Virtual Schools as Education Change Agents

Synthetic Worlds for Education?

Future Schools

Institute for Humane Education

Learning Anytime, Anywhere

Online Schools Enrollment Explosion

Online School Enrolls Huge Numbers with New Approach

Online Learning