Professor Continues Research on Classroom Computer Use
Professor Mark Warschauer has received a Google Research Award for a study of Netbooks and Open Tools in K-12 Education. The grant will provide funding for travel expenses and graduate and undergraduate research assistants in support of Dr. Warschauer's research on the educational use of low-cost laptops, open source software, and open educational resources in K-12 schools.
Dr. Warschauer's study is being carried out in elementary schools deploying innovative one-computer-per-student programs in culturally and linguistically diverse elementary schools in Alabama, Colorado, and California.
As part of the award, Dr. Warschauer will liason with Dr. Hal Abelson, an MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, who is currently on sabbatical at Google conducting research on the educational potential of mobile computing. Dr. Abelson is one of the international leaders of the open software and open educational resource movement having founded the Free Software Foundation and the Creative Commons and playing a key role in fostering the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative.
