The Internet Isn’t Education’s Savior
Online courses aren't reaching those who need them most, researchers find.
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There’s No Substitute for In-Person Lectures
Video, schmideo: Canadian university students remembered more material when they heard a live lecture in the classroom.
Bringing the Rural Poor Into the Digital Economy
Dumas, a small town in the heart of the Arkansas Delta—where public computers and open Internet access are hard to come by—is home to an ambitious new program to teach digital literacy skills.
The Pilot Program
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
Why MOOCs Are Bad for Science Education
Instead of overturning traditional education models, when it comes to science, MOOCs just reinforce them.
Iran’s Secret University for Baha’i: Global and Underground
A university in Iran connects to the rest of the world to give the minority Bahá’í community opportunities for higher education
A Whole New U
One man’s quest to see if Udacity, one of a cluster of new free, online universities, can make programmers of us all.