Innovation Toronto Guest Post by Brianna Meiers Between more expansive offerings and growing free content, Internet learning has come a long way in the past several years. Most of the focus at Innovation Toronto has [...]

A consortium has brokered an agreement with 12 journals to ensure that nearly all particle physics articles are made immediately free on journal Web sites The entire field of particle physics is set to switch [...]

A new generation of assessment tools are hoping to piggyback off the wealth of online rating software to find a better and more efficient method of assessing students. The world is caught up in an [...]

The next generation of artificial intelligence from the lab that built the iPhone’s Siri is powering an educational game. A London-based startup, Kuato Studios, is expected to come out later this year with a newgameto teach kids [...]

America is in trouble. Emerging economic powers China and India are heavily investing in educating the world’s future workers while we squabble about punishing teachers and coddling children. This week, the Center for American Progress [...]

The idea was to create a platform through which people could come together and learn new skills. When peer-to-peer learning startup Skillshare launched early last year, it very quickly became a marketplace for knowledge,allowing anyone to create [...]

Is the era of the ivy-walled college coming to an end? How much will technology reshape what we think of as the college experience? See what the experts had to say. Higher education is rapidly [...]

His software is revolutionizing the classroom and the way kids can learn Eric Simons made a name for himself by squatting in AOL’s headquarters to save money while he worked on ClassConnect. Now that it’s [...]

Predictions for how the next 15 years are going to change how children learn, at school and at home. During the past 40 years, accounting for inflation, we have nearly tripled the amount of money [...]

“AH, you’re a professor. You must learn so much from your students.” This line, which I’ve heard in various forms, always makes me cringe. Do people think that lawyers learn a lot about the law [...]

The response ranges from curiosity to fear of losing a crucial competition A few months ago, free online courses from prestigious universities were a rarity. Now, they are the cause for announcements every few weeks, [...]

Quite possibly, but an education just from YouTube videos would miss the true point of a college education. This past February, as one of the keynote speakers invited to contribute to a lively forum sponsored [...]