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“With all that is expected of teachers and students today, building a mathematics curriculum that has the depth to meet the needs of all classrooms is a very hard thing to do

“They’ve sidestepped the math wars because they have a rational curriculum, well-taught, and they get great results, so how can you argue with that?

Until now, it has been very expensive to teach to students' individual needs, he said--and yet, research shows that's how students learn best. One reason online learning is attractive is because it allows for more of this customized approach to instruction than can be found in many classrooms.

As a result, there are intellectual property laws that are so routinely ignored that they have become meaningless—and enforcing them makes librarians appear to be martinets.

Making free copies of copyrighted online materials and passing them out to students, downloading digital videos (such as YouTube’s) onto a local hard drive, and converting analog materials to digital formats to be used with an interactive whiteboard or slide-show software for whole group instruction are all regularly done by teachers. These uses have either no or minimal impact on a copyright holder’s profits. Overly strict enforcements of the letter of copyright laws will lead to creating scofflaws of not just students, but teachers, and make all copyright restrictions suspect.

Until something is proven illegal, assume it’s legal.

Students and teachers both are finding it necessary to be technologically adept, to be able to collaborate on a global scale and to understand content and media design.

Schools need to adapt to current student needs and identify new learning models that are engaging to younger generations.

To support such a change, both teaching practice and the tools used in the classroom must adapt. Assessment has also not kept pace with new modes of working, and must change along with teaching methods, tools, and materials.