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The cost of not investing rural high speed Internet: Why one school upgraded to fiber

Education Superhighway

Jim Beasley’s mission to upgrade Llano Independent School District’s network began when he first started working there in 2005. The school district couldn’t cover the cost of non-recurring construction to build fiber to their most rural school with just E-rate. What are the costs of not upgrading?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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