Internet and education: What will the future bring?

Philadelphia Inquirer, The, June, 2007 by Rusty Pray Inquirer Staff Writer

Ken Hartman was talking about his favorite subject: technology and its impact on education.

"It's truly exciting in online learning right now, because it's where the growth is occurring in education," said Hartman, a Cherry Hill resident and the director of academic affairs at Drexel University's eLearning, an online education subsidiary.

Hartman looks ahead - well, actually, it's happening now on a trial basis - and sees the Internet on school buses.

"Soon, students will have the ability to communicate with their teachers on the way to school and on the way home," he said.

That might not be good news to the school-bus chatters.

"It will make the ride quieter, that's for sure," Hartman...