What Is Good Teaching?

By Guest Author Joshua Fisher How is the Internet changing the way you think? This is the Edge annual question for 2010—a question answered in various ways at Edge.org by a cadre of leading contributor-thinkers in fields such as neuroscience, philosophy, evolutionary biology, and computer science, among many others.

Forbes Column 2010: America’s K-12 Education Strategy

Technology is addressing the dysfunctions in education. Read more in this week’s Forbes column.

Forbes Column 2009: The Education Solution

To teach, train and retrain millions of people, online education is the only scalable option. To see why, read this week’s Zero In: The Education Solution.

Deal Radar 2009: ChalkPad Technologies

We continue our series on Indian companies in the education sector. The company featured today, ChalkPad Technologies, is a provider of education enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to schools, colleges and universities. It is also a consultancy on how to leverage IT in an educational setting.

A Public University’s Online Journey: Hunt Lambert of CSU (Part 7)

SM: Is online education a trend that is emerging across all states in the US? HL: I would say that every state has tried or is trying to do this. One thing that makes our story interesting is that right now, every other state entity that has tried to do this has failed in one

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A Public University’s Online Journey: Hunt Lambert of CSU (Part 6)

SM: What role does the faculty play in your program? Do they largely focus on putting the courses together? HL: There are two roles. We have a course development team that builds the course. We also have a faculty member assigned to every 20 undergrad students and 17 grad students who are expected to be

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A Public University’s Online Journey: Hunt Lambert of CSU (Part 5)

SM: Your thesis was that CSU’s charter was public education for Colorado, so you wanted to use proven online teaching methodologies and apply them to the Colorado brand. What were the mechanics of making that happen? HL: I told the board that they needed to set us up as a separate campus and give us

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An Overview of the Education Market in India

By Guest Author Shipra Agarwal Education has long been receiving the major wallet share of the Indian middle class. The education market is generally regarded as the only market towards which Indians are not price-sensitive because it has helped them reach their present standard of living and promises better earnings and prospects for their children.