Bill Gates said that within 5 years the best education will be on the internet. He thinks that education will rely less on places like schools and universities.
The first stem is to get every child a machine that will give them access to the internet where all of that exciting learning will take place.
Most of the kids in the world are poor and can't afford a laptop and often there are no power sources. The goal of One Laptop Per Child was to create a rugged laptop that kids can use anywhere.
http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/ind...Originally the goal of the laptop was to have an open source machine for $100. The machines actually cost $200 at first but the prices have been going down, and the later versions switched to a tablet design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1Now India has created a tablet that only costs $35. They expect the costs to go down to $20 and eventually $10.
http://trak.in/tags/business/2010/07/22/...The future of education may well be online. Soon that education will not just be for the developed countries.
Originally The OLPC software would be open sourced so inexpensive educational programing could be added. Then Apple said they were interested and wanted it to run Windows. The XO laptops/pads never did sell with a Windows OS, but India's pad looks like it has the Windows OS and will also run the Android operating system.