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Heard: India’s Faces A Foundational Future Risk As Fake Colleges Proliferate
Rama Lakshmi writes in The Washington Post about fake, unaccredited colleges in India that are adding to an education crisis. Wired Academic Managing Editor Paul Glader reported on the same topic in...
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Guest Column: How Social Media Will Spur Education In Developing Countries
Photo Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center via Compfight By Anne Collier, editor of www.netfamilynews.org Those of us in developed countries can get so wrapped up in the potential downsides of...
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Columnist Michael Horn: The Peruvian One Laptop Per Child Fiasco
By Michael Horn, Columnist Five years ago Peru’s government equipped 800,000 of its public school students with low-cost laptops through the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The purpose was to use...
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Heard: Schools in India Expanding Use Of Khan Academy
Photo Credit: Elvin W. via Compfight Anupama Chandrasekaran writes in The New York Times’ India Ink blog about schools in India that are turning to the Khan Academy for help. The reason is because of...
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Alvaro Salas As A Case Study In Crowd-Funding An Ivy-League Education
Alvaro Salas teaches a class in Central America By Paul Glader, Managing Editor Alvaro Salas earned a full-ride scholarship to Cornell University’s Masters in Public Administration program. To do...
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Online Educa: Michael Trucano On EdTech’s ”F” Word
Kate Sumbler via Compfight By Paul Glader, Managing Editor BERLIN — Michael Trucano approaches education technology from a refreshingly different perspective: The Pessimist. As senior ICT and...
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Coursera’s Next Big MOOC Strategy: Headhunting Via “Signature Track”
Windell Oskay via Compfight In case you missed it, Coursera announced its new “Signature Track” option for credentialing students (and making money for Coursera) and connecting them to future...
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Guest Columnist Anne Collier On The Power Of Literacy & Education In Kenya
Njambi Ndiba via Compfight By Anne Collier, Guest Columnist Over the holidays our family watched the amazing documentary A Small Act about Kenyan Chris Mburu, a UN human rights lawyer, wanting to...
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World’s Wealthiest Billionaire Carlos Slim Brings Khan Academy To Mexico
Eneas De Troya via Compfight Mexico-based telecom billionaire Carlos Slim Helu is the latest Daddy Warbucks to flock to Sal Khan and the Khan Academy since Bill Gates. In fact, Slim is ranked as the...
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Davos: 12-Year-Old Pakistani Prodigy Girl Talks About Her Online Learning
Khadijah Niazi of Lahore, Pakistan, is an inspirational example of how online education is revolutionizing learning. She was only 10 years old when she first took the Artificial Intelligence online...
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Exclusive Interview: Gary Lebowitz On “Remote Participation” That Leaves No...
Mircea via Compfight PARIS — At the iLearning Forum 2013 in Paris in February, WiredAcademic managing editor Paul Glader sat down with Gary Lebowitz at a Paris, Café, to talk about his experience in...
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India Kicks Off A College Building Boom To Boost National Development
Ravi Sarma, an assistant professor of property law, points out new buildings going up at Chanakya National Law University, one of several new higher education institutions in Bihar, India’s poorest...
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