Fryer--a Harvard economist and MacArthur genius--doesn't care how we get underperforming students to do better. He just wants to find ways to test any education hypothesis as quickly as possible, until we find what works.

Pearson makes billions of dollars a year providing educational materials. So why is it getting into bed with a small education startup incubator?

After helping to pioneer a selection of online courses at Stanford, the man behind the driverless car is leaving the ivory tower to do something potentially more groundbreaking: start a high-quality online university.

There are already a slew of forces at work trying to reinvent the text book with technology. Will Apple be able to push them all aside? Or will its announcement just serve to further confuse educators?

Whether it's via the administration, the professors, or the students, serious investments in edtech are coming to major universities. Which startups are going to be called upon to help make the transition?

It was a year of a massive surge in edtech innovations and investments. EdSurge takes a look at the biggest themes.

Sure, there is great cloud-based education software available, but many schools lack either the hardware or the bandwidth to make them work. Hope comes in the form of some clever--and cheap--hardware innovations from around the world.

The VC says education is so resistant to change that it's scary to invest in. But it's a sector that startups could--and are--seriously disrupting.

Taught by two Googlers and available on YouTube free of charge, the class might be the largest instance of group education in the world, and the students--even around the world--seem to be eating it up.