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CAI (computer-assisted instruction) approach to education which was strictly content-based and driven by behavioral objectives.

Fifteen minutes per day on a machine should suffice for each of these programs, the machines being free for other students for the rest of each day. (It is probably because traditional methods are so inefficient that we have been led to suppose that education requires such a prodigious part of a young person's day).

It would be important to note that the colleges that offer OCW courses are not meant to serve as "distance learning" initiatives. Credits and degrees are not offered through access to open sources and participants don't have access to university faculty with these resources.

Open source, according to the linked article, "refers to any enterprise where data (e.g. journal article, piece of software) may be modified by the relevant community and those modifications may be recontributed to the larger whole." Open access, on the other hand, has come to mean data — like peer-reviewed documents — that may be read without charge.

The graduate students are working with local area middle school science teachers to design interactive games that will help children grasp difficult science concepts.

"Students can conduct simulated science experiments or engage in team-learning activities in our engineering buildings from anywhere, anytime."

The special island is completely isolated and can be accessed only in school with a teacher's permission, not from home.

"You know what an MMO is, right?"

The challenge is making a persistent online world that's both safe and compelling.

Cogs," robots wearing business suits who want to take away the fun of Toontown and create a bleak, industrial existence.

If used correctly, computers in more hands can help speed schools along the path to 21st-century learning, Walery says.

The district’s policy didn’t allow for students to bring in their own computers and connect to the school’s network,

To innovate or wait: that is the question confronting IT managers on an almost weekly basis.

Perhaps the question instead should be how best to move in this direction yet avoid the faddish false starts that the Chronicle writer cautioned against.

In a nutshell, this theory holds that learning is strengthened, deepened, and made more effective when it is social, is engaged, provides formative assessment (as opposed to just summative), is relevant (tying content to students' concerns), and offers learners multiple paths. But perhaps the single most important component of constructivist learning theory is that learning happens best when students are active—not merely taking notes in lecture halls but writing, thinking, experimenting, creating, and devising.

And everyone involved seems quite happy with being unsure about why exactly it’s important.

The OCW resources, including video-taped labs, simulations, assignments and other hands-on material, have been categorized to match up with the requirements of high school Advanced Placement studies.

giving educators and students an unprecedented opportunity for easy self-expression and reflection that anyone can access--and to which anyone can respond.

There is an excitement that comes from writing for a real, authentic audience instead of a circular file seen only by the teacher,

So, what makes a good blog? The quality of its ideas is important, panelists said, and so is the personality of the blog and its writer. It's important for this personality to come through, so that "you really feel like you're having a human interaction,"

For insights into where teaching and learning is headed, it is worth watching the evolution of iPod use at Duke University (NC), well known for its 2004 iPod initiative.

Blogging is an opportunity to exchange our point of view with the rest of the world not just people in our immediate environment

Today, the weblog is frequently characterized (and criticized) as (only) a set of personal comments and observations. A look at the history of weblogging shows that this isn’t the case.

Weblogs (so named in 1997 by Jorn Barger in his Robot Wisdom Web site)

MMORPG

"We don't expect everyone to pay," we're told. "They're valuable to us if they're playing: they love the franchise, they're living in the world. It's good for the Disney company to keep this brand on the radar."

This includes a software system as well as human monitors that look for bad behavior, filter out inappropriate language in our chat systems before it can be seen by others, and prevent children from inadvertently exchanging personal information that could allow them to be identified in the real world, such as name, address, phone numbers, etc. When we find people breaking our rules, we apply levels of progressive discipline."