When it comes to improving education, many have pointed to the importance of technology in the classroom. Using computers is supposed to make students more excited to learn, enable them to absorb ...

As 21st-century teachers, we are expected to help students master the technological tools they will use in college and the workplace. But in many districts, the one-computer classroom is not extinct.

New study results by a research team at the University of Cologne show that future teachers increasingly want to use computer games in the classroom. The study identifies particularly relevant aspects ...

Last month Adi Robertson wrote an award-worthy mini history of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) fiasco, which many of us have long forgotten about. Near the end, this quote stuck out: "What the project ...

A shipper container that’s never seen either a rail line or any of the world’s oceans is destined for a completely different mobile use — helping poor kids in Africa go to school. And it will get ...

For nurse Laura Istanboulian, working in the intensive care unit has challenges that she’s delighted to be able to discuss with other nurses nationwide. Istanboulian is a student in the master’s of ...

Allison Master has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Mindset Scholars Network. Imagine a computer programmer. What does this person look like? What is this person doing? Is ...

Online learning is on the rise everywhere. A 2008 survey by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation found e-learning increased more than 12 percent in 2008 and predicts even more interest in 2009 as Americans ...

• In Blacksburg, Va., Virginia Tech's engineering college is requiring all 1,400 incoming freshmen to purchase tablet PCs, and the college is recommending that they buy from Fujitsu. In 1984, the ...