The academic and corporate worlds come together to share new thinking on education. Speakers include a middle-school principal, the head of nonprofit Futurelab and a Microsoft Corp. researcher. Sunday-Wednesday, the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Half Moon Bay, Calif....

Teachers of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are discovering that by adding an “A”—the arts—to STEM, learning will pick up STEAM. “Students remember science learning situations that contain multi-sensory, hands-on...

The movement toward open educational resources turns teachers into the shapers of curriculum, mixing and matching educational materials to create content that is tailor-made for the needs of their students.

In my trends watch at the beginning of the year (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=52127), I mentioned that openness is increasingly a characteristic of many sectors and technologies—open access, open library, open source, open standards, open...

(Money Magazine) -- Last autumn I took time off to go back to school. The timing turned out to be just right: My American economic history course at the University of California at Berkeley got to the Great Depression in early October, around the time everyone became...