U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke frankly to a roomful of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs about the crisis in our current education system.
NovoEd launched today to make access to courses from prestigious educational institutions available to anyone, starting with Stanford.
ProBueno wants to help you turn your talents into donations for your favorite non-profit.
Thinkful's virtual tutoring platform provides personalized training for college students in practical skills like web development and design.
Wizur makes you wiser. It’s a nice slogan for a web site that allows you learn new things, from how to do sales to taking college courses that you never had time for.
Wizur is part of a trend toward …
Coursera's slogan is "Higher education that overcomes the boundaries of geography, time, and money." Except, of course, for the state boundaries of Minnesota.
The emphasis at LFE is on getting experts who use their hands or bodies for work, like carpenters.
Editor's Pick An all-star panel, with Electronic Arts' CEO John Riccitiello and entrepreneurship professor William Sahlman, said the U.S. is falling behind in economic competitiveness.
Today, a team of expert panelists gathered at DisruptSF to discuss how technology can benefit the public school system. The overarching goal for NewsCorp's Joel Klein, Udacity's Sebastian Thrun and Khan Academy's Salman Khan is to bring personalized learning to the classroom.
The new curriculum so far includes courses on programming basics, drawing with JavaScript, animation, and user interaction.
Two Stanford University professors and a dream to educate the world, that’s what started Coursera. The service offers university-level courses to anyone with an Internet for free and just raised $16 million from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & …
The Khan Academy released its iPad application today, bringing its new wave of education to the mobile world.
Currently, the Khan Academy has more than 3,000 videos of all different subjects in its education warehouse. With the app, parents, teachers, …
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Apple recently announced iBooks 2 for iPad, which it promises will reinvent the textbook. Some even speculate that it will ignite a revolution in education.
Why? Because iBooks are sleeker, smarter, and equipped with a seemingly endless amount of innovative …
Have you ever considered how a simple, free technology such as YouTube videos could drastically improve a global problem such as education?
Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, is something of an expert on the topic. In this video, …
Digital education company BenchPrep is taking advantage of free informational content with its newest feature OpenPrep.
If you stepped into a classroom of collegians and asked, “How many people have used Wikipedia to research something,” just about all of the …
Sal Khan, a YouTube phenomenon, is on a stage talking to higher education professionals about how he’s disrupting their business. How he got here is an interesting story that has everything to do with money.
“I can’t claim to be …
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Rockets, electric cars, motion-sensing interfaces, free math education for all, and a social network that’s closing in on a billion people.
Don’t you wish you could ask the legendary innovators behind these great ideas what it really takes to change …
