Thanks to Coursera, professors at universities like Stanford, Princeton and Columbia are able to offer courses in a wide range of topics for free. More
Blended learning; technology; charter schools More
More and more high schools are allowing students to use credit recovery to make up failed classes, but the system is not without critics. More
Kevin Carey, of the Education Policy program at the New American Foundation, discusses the concept of earning free college credit for life experience. More
Computer scientist Sebastian Thrun talks about his past projects at Google as well as the development of Udacity and his approach to online education. More
Two years ago, Forsyth County School District outside Atlanta launched a technology program, encouraging students to BYOT – bring your own technology. More
Gear Up’s mission is to eliminate the problem of remediation-high school graduates still not ready to take college level courses. More
The tech giant plans to offer digital textbooks for e-readers. More
Dylan Ratigan shoots his show from the offices of Chegg, a Silicon Valley business that is rethinking how students interact with textbooks. More
Nationwide, 250,000 students are enrolled in virtual schools, up 40 percent in the last three years. More