Exploring concepts such as observation and measurement in the fresh air can give students a new and playful perspective on ...

From a tiny closet in Mountain View, Calif., Sal Khan is educating the globe for free. His 1,516 videotaped mini-lectures -- on topics ranging from simple addition to vector calculus and Napoleonic ...

Last week in this space we reported on the surprising victory of a college student in a county-board election. Eric Folkman, a junior at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, won election as a ...

Thanks to the proliferation of smart devices, cloud-based services and more fluid content creation and distribution systems, technology is fundamentally changing the way we learn. Not only is it ...