Kalyan is a top teacher at Knewton, where he guides students through their LSAT prep.

Lecture based classes are common largely because they are easier to implement from an organizational standpoint, thus helping keep tuition costs lower than they would otherwise be. But there is a tradeoff – they are also far less optimal from a [...]

Pete is the CTO at Knewton, where he and his team are working hard to get ready for the launch of our new SAT prep course.
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If you’re a recent or soon-to-be college grad (or maybe you realized your undergrad degree in Art History ain’t gonna pay the bills) and you are passionate about computers [...]

Jay Mathews has a piece in The Washington Post this week that highlights a common challenge in ed tech. Many schools now partner with sites where students’ assignments can be easily followed online. This is great for kids who routinely forget to write down assignments, and it’s great for parents whose children struggle to stay [...]

World Bank’s Edublog has a post up about an incredibly ambitious educational technology program in Uruguay. Under Plan Ceibal, all students in Uruguayan primary schools (and soon high school students, as well) receive free laptops as part of their public school education. Even better, the schools take steps to ensure that the new technology is [...]

The MacArthur Foundation (of Genius Grant renown) and HASTAC are funding a really interesting competition that’s set to launch on December 14th. It’s called Reimagining Learning, and it’s aimed at spurring innovative ideas in participatory education.
The contest has two categories, both open to the public. The 21st Century Learning Lab Designers category fields entries that [...]

Alex Sarlin is Lead Verbal Developer for Graduate Programs at Knewton, specializing in GMAT prep.

Karen Cator, the former Director of Education and Leadership at Apple, was just appointed as the US Department of Education’s new head of the Office of Educational Technology.
Combined with the fact that $650MM that has been committed to educational tech by [...]

Ethan Hein is a content editor and social media guru at Knewton.
I used to teach afterschool in City of New York/Parks & Recreation’s Computer Resource Center program. Kids in the program spent a lot of time playing educational games like Logical Journey Of The Zoombinis and The Incredible Machine.

The kids would literally fight with each [...]

Timothy Burke says in his blog post, “Putting Syllabi Online:”
Since I often put up both drafts of syllabi and completed syllabi for comments, I obviously think it’s a good practice. It’s been nothing but beneficial for me: I’ve gotten great suggestions, interesting critiques, a good feeling for how the syllabus plays with different intellectual communities. [...]

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to code their own animation, interactions and data visualization. It shows tons of potential for fun, interactive educational and gaming applications. Check out the project gallery to see some examples, ranging from the silly to the sublime. Project initiators Ben Fry and [...]