What can the American and British education systems learn from classrooms in the developing world?
Adam Braun went to school in the US and now runs a nonprofit that builds schools in Ghana, Laos, Nicaragua and Guatemala. In contrast, Sugat...
Two educators, two very different visions, one question: How can tech help us rethink education in the developing world?
Take two education activists with very different theories — and give them a chance to work together on a goal they both care about. Th...
What happens when 5th graders run the classroom: A SOLE in action
Eleven-year-olds running a classroom? That could sound outlandish to some elementary school teachers, but not to Joe Jamison, or “Mr. J” as ...
A year into his School in the Cloud documentary, Jerry Rothwell shares the highs and lows of watching students teach themselves
British director Jerry Rothwell, the winner of the first annual Sundance Institute | TED Prize Filmmaker Award, has spent the past year trai...
A $5 million challenge to help community college students graduate
Ani Okkasian was the first in her family to go to college. “My parents escaped a communist country and got to the States with $700 in their ...
Sugata Mitra TED Prize update: Preview the School in the Cloud documentary — and a new web platform for learning
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFdqvCL2W2k&w=586&h=330] By Natasha Scripture Sugata Mitra thinks big. At last year’s TED, h...
A School in the Cloud among the mangrove trees: Sugata Mitra opens his first independent learning lab in India
“Early one morning last February, a man turned up on my doorstep who had travelled through the night to get there,” said Sugata Mitra, the e...
Antibiotic resistance and particle physics: Burlington High School’s TED-Ed Club blinds us with science
“Using a powerful particle gun, we would shoot small pieces of matter through the force field and into the antimatter to make small, c...
The attack on our higher education system — and why we should welcome it
By George Siemens In the past few years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a lens used by educators, entrepreneurs, education ...