Tom Vander Ark: Questions About Digital Learning

I visited Wireless Generation, a leading education technology company, in Brooklyn this week.  In a discussion about my new book "Getting Smart," a couple dozen employees including teachers and technologists asked great questions about the future of learning.

Question: Your book includes a lot of “in 5-10 years” predictions, but online learning has been around for over 10 years and it still hasn’t been widely adopted by schools.  So why now?  Why haven’t we already seen the digital learning revolution, and what’s different about today that makes schools ready to accept these new forms of learning?
Click here to read the answer to this question, and the others that made for a lively debate.