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
Flourish is a program for students or recent graduates of colleges and universities who want to use their creative skills to help interesting companies grow. It is unique in the way it train... 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
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
A new plan–which will let students pay back loans at rates determined by how much income they make after college–began as an ambitious school project. On the day federal legislat... Read more
Media can change stereotypes that discourage women from entering many fields The ‘computer nerd’ is a well-known stereotype in our modern society. While this stereotype is inaccu... Read more
On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World As the car pulled into the parking lot of a Starbucks, William Sanford Nye unknotted his trademark bow tie and slipped it off... Read more
A team of masters students from the Queen Mary, University of London is hoping to develop the world’s first photovoltaic multi-copter. Dubbed “Solarcopter,” the team’s crea... Read more
Medical students have been honing their skills on human simulations for years and Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine has been using the world’s first robotic dog simul... Read more
Now, technology is recommending that students return to their textbooks or their professors will find out. First, technology made students’ lives easier by enabling them to read wikis instea... Read more
Rather Than Reinventing Education By Teaching A Million People At Once, Can We Perfect Teaching One Person At A Time? We’ve written a few times about innovation in education, and I... Read more
LG has just shown off the world’s first 84-inch Ultra Definition (UD) LCD interactive whiteboard, and it’s truly something to behold. The technology is being geared towards schoo... Read more
So there’s a lot of enthusiasm for online education. Of the many arguments I’ve seen, these make the most sense: First, online education gives people access to higher education who otherwis... Read more
The idea was to create a platform through which people could come together and learn new skills. When peer-to-peer learning startup Skillshare launched early last year, it very quickly becam... Read more
No More Boring Resumes: Seelio Lets College Students Showcase Their Work & Helps Employers Find Them
Looking to rethink the resume, a startup calledSeelio is opening its doors today to anyone with a .edu email address. The company, which spun out of an existing service called TruApp, wants... Read more
