Technology plays an ever-increasing role in classrooms, whether elementary, high school or college. Digital textbooks may seem inevitable for most students, but there are still many reasons why they are not as practical as print.
There is a new form of digital literacy being promoted in many middle schools and high schools: the idea of being a digital citizen. The idea is to teach students internet essentials: safety, privacy, plagiarism, cyberbullying and more. How are your digital skills? Could they use an update?
Mobile technology is becoming just as important to higher learning as the concept of education itself. The difference is mobile technology just may over shadow traditional learning tools as more colleges and universities shift to the 21st century learning environment.
Many prestigious universities, including Syracuse University and Harvard, have online versions of their school. It may be easier to gain admittance to their extensions schools, but the education proves to be just as rigorous, with a lower price tag.
Is the MOOC model of free, open-enrollment classes the way of the future for higher education? Some professors and higher ed institutions worry that this might be so, and it might not be a good thing.
Classroom lectures, open book tests and videos are only some of the traditional methods used by instructors to teach courses from mathematics to physics. However, with the age of digital technology upon us, many students are turning to the Internet for higher education, with mixed results.
States are chomping at the bit to get a finger into the online learning pie. Asserting that they are only interested in ensuring a quality online education for would-be students, politicians fail to recognize that this market place is self-regulating. Ever wonder why and how?
