As a new decade begins, the education landscape is changing before our very eyes, with learning becoming more student-centered and classes becoming more and more flexible both in schools and colleges, and online. Technology is improving and developing at the fastest pace ever, transforming teaching
Listening to music while working can boost productivity by 15 percent , according to a new study. The analysis was commissioned by Scala Radio and it focused on a sample group of 2,000 employees. Half of these employees enjoy listening to music at work, while the other half is sincerely against it.
While we are living times of change and using tech advancements once portrayed only in science fiction magazines, some things remain the same. Universal patterns and their physical translation need not change since they embody implacable relationships or rules, yet not all constant elements around
Technology is changing every aspect of our lives––and the educational system is no exception to the rule. From the rapid proliferation of massive open online courses (MOOCs) to the widespread adoption of mobile devices that facilitate blended learning models, technology is creating new waves of opp
The common use of digital technology has changed entire sectors of the American society. Companies like Google, Apple and Amazon have revolutionized the way people work, talk and shop. Online and social media platforms have provided billions of people worldwide with the ability to share ideas with
Let’s face it: these days, if your students don’t have internet access, you might as well close shop. With the technologies you have at your disposal, that’s not really a problem – until you realize that each network comes with its own security risks. Campus networks, in particular, are difficult to
As physics is still struggling to postulate and validate the theory of everything, technology might have found its own version. In the Big Data era, religion has been replaced by data flow, processing power and sophisticated algorithms, while Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be the new cult.
Now that school is starting all over again (or it has already started, depending on each institution’s particular schedule), on track with the ineludible yearly cycle, some of the children and their parents may find themselves confronted with back-to-school anxiety. The phenomenon – that NPR found t
Considering how modern education managed to enroll by the start of the 21st century the majority of all children worldwide (following the 1909 moment), the idea of homeschooling children seems like a retrograde move at first glance. However, since homeschooling originated out of various
Identifying the persistent issues in a structure that permanently strives to improve itself may be a real challenge. The educational system has known many grafted solutions, and continuously found itself between the centralized or localized strategies and the open source innovations whose outlets
