McGraw-Hill Education's Head of Digital: Future of Education Isn’t Free. It’s Open.

Stephen Laster, Chief Digital Officer, McGraw-Hill Education

Advances in learning science are powering a new generation of technologies that, when used by dedicated teachers, improve student performance and extend learning beyond the confines of the classroom. Digital adaptive learning coupled with an explosion of relatively low-cost learning applications has the potential to dramatically lift the performance of all of our students.

The bad news, the thing that frustrates so many students, parents and teachers, is that many of these technologies simply do not work well together.