April 15, 2009 A mobile computer classroom powered by solar panels atop a modified SUV is providing computer training to 100 students a day in the east African country of Uganda. The Maendeleo ...

• In Blacksburg, Va., Virginia Tech's engineering college is requiring all 1,400 incoming freshmen to purchase tablet PCs, and the college is recommending that they buy from Fujitsu. In 1984, the ...

Many school districts are reluctantly cutting staff and dropping courses in a desperate effort to respond to tighter budgets. But some educators are looking at ways to save money and improve ...

Computers may be the future, but they are killing children’s reading ability. A new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development published on Tuesday showed that there is a ...

I've taught since 1980 and the people to get involved in development of a tablet computer are classroom teachers, from Kindergarten through University. The needs for hardware and software change at ...

Owura Kwadwo Hottish illustrates a window of Microsoft Word using colored chalk on a blackboard. He uses it to teach computer skills to students at the Betenase M/A Junior High School in Kumasi, Ghana ...

Online learning is on the rise everywhere. A 2008 survey by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation found e-learning increased more than 12 percent in 2008 and predicts even more interest in 2009 as Americans ...

Teachers are increasingly using computers for administrative tasks like record-keeping and communicating with parents and peers but that new comfort level doesn't translate to the use of computers in ...

When it comes to improving education, many have pointed to the importance of technology in the classroom. Using computers is supposed to make students more excited to learn, enable them to absorb ...

Part 1 of a two-part report. Many school districts are reluctantly cutting staff and dropping courses in a desperate effort to respond to tighter budgets. But some educators are looking at ways to ...