You are invited to submit a proposal for a presentation, open session or poster at the… 2nd Annual mEducation Alliance International Symposium: 2012- Partnering for Scale & Impact September 5-7, 2012 Washington, DC. For this year’s mEducation Alliance International Symposium, we want to highlight your experiences and insights on partnership. What does a successful partnership [...]

The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), a tool used in over 50 low-income countries and 70 languages to measure students’ progress toward learning to read, is going digital through its new Tangerine™ platform.  The mobile software application designed by RTI International specifically for recording student responses during the administration of the EGRA can now be used [...]

Over the last decade, Wikipedia has become as ubiquitous a research tool for the modern American student as the encyclopedia was for their parents — though even that has changed now that the Encyclopedia Britannica has gone completely digital.  But Wikipedia has remained largely inaccessible for students in remote corners of the world where English, [...]

Of all of the new innovations in ICTs — mobile apps and games, open educational resources (OER), and everything else related to ICT for education (ICT4E) — which will be the most important in the next five years? That’s just one of the questions that the new NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition aims [...]

Remember “Hooked on Phonics“?  The famous infomercials from the 90′s that promised an educational video series could improve children’s reading scores through phonic-based learning methods? GraphoGAME, a digital-based phonics learning game developed in Finland, is proving to be just as effective for children in low-income countries and as easily accessible through an array of ICT [...]

The ever-growing universal digital library, full of open educational and adaptable resources which allows teachers and students from around the world to pursue opportunities in distance learning, is about to raise its standards for a new initiative due to be launched in April –TED-Ed.  TED, a nonprofit famous for its award-winning TED Talks devoted to [...]

If education quality is largely dependent on the teaching capacity of educators, wouldn’t integrating video instruction from expert teachers into low-resource schools’ curricula seem like a good idea? Digital StudyHall (DSH), a program that has pioneered Facilitated Video Instruction for primary school education in low-resource settings since 2005, might seem revolutionary to the improvement of [...]

Last week, amidst reading the various blogs and tweets for Open Education Week, I came across several acronyms that were unfamiliar.  Terms like Edupunk and Aakash are just a few of the terms that you simply have to “be in the know” in order to know. Anyone new to the field of information and communication technology [...]

This week, the online global education community is kicking off the first ever Open Education Week, an event initiated by the OpenCourseWare Consortium to raise awareness to the increasing number of possibilities within this field.  This growing movement is poised to change the way that education is viewed, both in the developed and developing world. [...]