The technology provides an innovative alternative to bricks-and-mortar schooling, enabling personal learning, interactive learning and many-to-many learning. The cloud also allows students to interact and collaborate with an ever-expanding circle of their peers, regardless of geographical location.
The funny thing about game-changing technologies is how long they can take to change the game. I first wrote about WiMAX (aka IEEE 802.16) more than three years ago, when specifications were just being finalized.
Adoption of 4G WiMax networks, which promise faster anywhere-Internet than 3G networks, has advanced at a crawl in the U.S. The problem: There are far too few WiMax-blanketed cities, and far too few WiMax-compatible devices. The Sprint Overdrive 3G/4G Mobile Hotspot ($100) is the most practical way of logging on to WiMax yet.