Re-educating Rita IN JULY 2011 Sebastian Thrun, who among other things is a professor at Stanford, posted a short video on YouTube, announcing that he and a colleague, Peter Norvig, were mak... Read more
In remote areas of Africa, there aren’t always schools nearby, let alone ones equipped for teaching digital literacy. An alternative is to take digital education to such remote locatio... Read more
Electronic learning could enable millions more students to train as doctors and nurses worldwide, according to research. A review commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and carr... Read more
American students are bored by math, science and engineering. They buy smartphones and tablets by the millions but don’t pursue the skills necessary to build them. Engineers and physicists a... Read more
“We learned that in order to make programming of interest to young children, it has to be a tangible product” When former Google executive Vikas Gupta had a daughter two years ago, he... Read more
A masterly use of chemistry and physics A little amount of appropriately prepared powder is poured in water polluted with phenol and cellulose. A bit of the sun and after fifteen minutes har... Read more
A simple change — turning on captions — can make a big difference in the classroom Robert Keith Collins, an assistant professor of American Indian studies, found that students... Read more
Good teachers have a surprisingly big impact on their pupils’ future income THERE are few policy questions to which improving the quality of education is not a reasonable answer. Yet assessi... Read more
The educators argue that for highly qualified applicants, the three-year degree can be an effective counterbalance to ever more extensive training periods Academic medical centers can help a... Read more
Research has found that reading with young children and engaging them can make a positive impact on the child’s future and their family. Bradford Wiles is an Assistant Professor and Extensio... Read more
We’re one step closer to making it socially acceptable to be a college dropout without a real job. At the beginning of September, Stanford announced a fundamentally new type of financial arr... Read more
University of Adelaide researchers are developing low-cost technology which can ‘talk’ to structures like bridges and aeroplanes to monitor their structural health and assess the... Read more
Schools and universities are embracing technology that tailors content to students’ abilities and takes teachers out of the lecturing business. But is it an improvement? When Arnecia H... Read more
The wonky discipline known as “distributed computation algorithms” can be a bit … dry. So instead of teaching the subject with problem sets and lengthy exams, the faculty of the Institute fo... Read more
New technology is poised to disrupt America’s schools, and then the world’s IN A small school on the South Side of Chicago, 40 children between the ages of five and six sit quietly learning... Read more