Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Sitting in the front row of a lecture hall could become obsolete as more colleges and universities enter the metaverse.
Technologies like Virtual Reality can play a role in schools, but teachers must be properly empowered and involved.
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A clearer understanding of teachers’ needs is required if schools and universities are to be better prepared for a future where technology is key to teaching and learning.
Technology has a lot to teach kids, especially if it’s available in more than one language.
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The affective domain - motivation, interest and values and their inter-relationships - forms an integral component in facilitating learners’ construction of physics knowledge.
There’s a great deal of debate about what devices schools should be using. But educators should be focusing on how children learn, not what they learn on.
Technology is evolving fast and can play a crucial role in educating university students.
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The belief that technology can automate education and replace teachers is pervasive. Framed in calls for greater efficiency, this belief is present in today’s educational innovations, reform endeavours…
I’m sure I use mine more that you do.
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Leslie Haddon, London School of Economics and Political Science
The bond between a child and their smartphone is like an umbilical cord. Now, a new survey has uncovered just how dependent the “smartphone generation” of British children are on the devices compared to…
Massive Open Online Courses may be fun and cheap, but they don’t really replicate the on-campus experience.
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One often sees news stories about how changes in information technology are killing off different industries. Newspapers are read online rather than in print, and who bought a book in a physical shop lately…
Picking an app isn’t as easy as ABC.
Kathy Cassidy
Parents and teachers have long been given guidance on which books can help children learn but no such help is on offer when it comes to apps. The bad news is, definite recommendations may be a long time…
Learning and having fun aren’t mutually exclusive: videogames (such as Portal) bridge the two perfectly.
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Although videogames are seen by many as a waste of time, one thing they do undeniably well is teach. The problem is that educational games are about as much a game as low-fat ice cream is delicious. Both…
Students will soon have to bring their own devices, so what does this mean for families, learning and inequity in schools?
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The computers for schools program, which involved federal funding for the supply of laptops to high school students, is set to end in June. The program was a central piece of the former government’s “digital…
Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University