Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

In a bilateral trade deal between Venezuela and Portugal worth $3bn (£1.66bn) every 6 to 10 year old in Venezuela will get a laptop based on the Intel Classmate, the rival machine to the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project. Called Magalhães (Magellan), the laptops have built in digital cameras, a broadband internet connection, and [...]

With the news of UK Government money going into providing home access to all learners aged 9 to 19 homes by 2011, comes a reviewed EU report which calls for universal access to broadband by 2010. Currently, the EC’s Universal Service Obligations (USO) demand that all citizens who want them should be able to get [...]

In Gordon Brown’s speech today at the Labour Party conference, he announced the long awaited Home Access scheme. The £300 million scheme commits to providing all low income families of school age children with home internet access, including appropriate hardware if needed, by 2011.
The basics of the initial scheme are:

broadband for all young people between [...]

Flatworld Knowledge is a new service that will launch in January aimed at the higher education market (it seems a shame they will have missed the beginning of the academic year). The idea is to provide quality textbooks to students to read online for free or download in a variety of formats for a fee. [...]