Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology

When Chris Dede from Harvard University visited the University of Illinois to deliver an address at the inauguration of the Ubiquitous Learning Institute [1] on 7 April 2010 [2], given that Dr Dede was a member of the National Education Technology Plan technical working group [3], we took the opportunity to plan a special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media devoted to a discussion of the national plan. To this end we invited contributions from a number of prominent scholars and invited Chris to organize a response from members of the working group to their comments and criticisms. As the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan notes in his letter to members of Congress that prefaces the report that America used…