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What is the Potential Impact of the iPad, Kindle, and other Tablet Computers in Education?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Tags: administrator, children, Classroom, Developing World, Education, ICT4E, ipad, kindle, Learning, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, nook, slide2learn, students, Teachermate, Teachers
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 32 Comments »

Will MOOC Technology Break the Education Cartel?

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

Tags: Apple Educator, Clay Christensen, Jonathan Nadler, Massive Open Online Courses, MOOC, OLPC, Pandora, World Reader
Posted in Massive Open Online Courses | Comments Off on Will MOOC Technology Break the Education Cartel?

Hardware Costs are not a Barrier for ICT Use in Literacy and Reading

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Tags: Aakash, Basic literacy, digital curriculum, e-reader, Early Grade Reading Assessment, eBooks, Evaluations, Grand Challenge, Hardware, ICT, ICT intervention, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, ipad, kindle, Laptop, literacy, OLPC, Plan Ceibal, Reading, Reading ICT, Reading Skills, Tablet, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, UbiSlate, USAID, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 4 Comments »

Worldreader is leading a reading revolution in the developing world

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, David Risher, e-Books, e-reader, eBooks, Ghana, Kenya, kindle, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Penguin, Random House, Reading, Roald Dahl, tablet devices, Textbooks, worldreader
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 4 Comments »

Which Low-Cost Laptop is Best for Education?

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Tags: Apple, Asus, Asus EeePC, Classmare PC, Educational Ecosystem, Form Factor, Intel, ipad, Low Power Computers, Low-cost ICT, mEducation, mLearning, OLCP, One Laptop Per Child, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Affordable Technology | 8 Comments »

eReaders will transform the developing world – in and outside the classroom

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Tags: Curious George, Digital Content, download books, e-Books, e-reader, Ghana, kindle, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Publishers, Random House, tablet devices, worldreader
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 12 Comments »

We Cannot Train More Teachers, We Must Empower Them with Technology

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Tags: Digitizing Textbooks, eBooks, ICT4E, India, OECD, OLPC, Open Content, Open Education Resources, Retraining Teachers, Teacher Mentors, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Training, Textbooks
Posted in Teacher Training | 20 Comments »

Yoza Excites African Teenagers to Love Reading Using Mobile Phones

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Tags: Kontax, literacy, m4Lit, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, MXit, Shuttleworth Foundation, Sisterz, South Africa, Steve Vosloo, StreetSkillz, Teen Literacy, Teenagers, Yoza
Posted in mEducation Initiatives | 3 Comments »

OLPC Is Not Revolutionalizing Education

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Tags: Amazon Kindle, Brazil, Dweep Chanana, Evaluations, literacy, OLPC Revolution, Primary School, School Children
Posted in One Laptop Per Child Impact | 17 Comments »

Asymmetrical OER Country Problems and Needs

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Tags: Affordability, courseware, Global Library Network, ICT Devices, Incentives, Intellectual Property, Languages, OER
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 5 Comments »