“Why won’t you answer me?”

Kids' questions may be annoying -- but they're more crucial to learning than we've ever thought. An expert explains

New Equation For Free Education: MITx + HARVARDx = edX

Just five months ago the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) introduced MITx, an online learning platform offering free online courses for anyone, anywhere to earn certificates in distance coursework. I covered the development in my popular Forbes piece, ?MIT Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All.? Now, according to Svea Herbst-Bayliss in Yahoo! News, Harvard has partnered with ...

Why Obama’s in bed with abstinence-only education

In the week since sex educators and activists called out the Obama administration for getting in bed with Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, the Department of Health and Human Services has stayed silent on why the program had been added to a list of approved, “evidence based” programs for teen pregnancy and STI prevention – until now. In an interview with Salon, HHS spokesman Mark Weber said ...

Open for business? Why universities must collaborate on OpenCourseWare

The digital revolution has begun and successful institutions will be those that use the opportunity to collaborate, grow and widen their influence, says Anka Mulder Leading higher education specialists from across the world convened at Cambridge University in April for a landmark global conference on the future of online learning . The contrast here between the ancient and the modern, the ...

Urban Jungle: The shock of arrival

Why isn't the government doing its bit to help visitors and tourists and make transit easy for them?