She reported how mobile phones enabled students to swap notes and search the web.
Mr. Sprague said that ubiquity has enabled students to tap into the Internet whenever and wherever they want to learn.
Between classes, he continued to write programs, including one called Coursematch, which enabled students to find out who was enrolled in a particular class.
Now the university's online program, with 155 graduates so far, has enabled students to earn a top-rated degree without moving to Illinois.
The use of partner venues enabled students to learn to ski, canoe, play golf, ride the rapids and so on at affordable prices.
Within a few months of arriving at Harvard, Zuckerberg had created a website called Facemash.com that enabled students to rate each other's attractiveness.
The Great Pasta Race enabled students to budget, purchase goods with money, and count their change -- skills the children will use throughout their lives.
There was near unanimous consensus on what scored well: activities that were student-driven, such as students running the recap and plenary, student-initiated discussion or activities that enabled students to exercise their creativity through making or producing something.
The later subjects were not studied in depth; humanism was by its nature against encyclopaedism, but it brought out the relations between the disciplines and enabled students to know many subjects before they decided in which to specialize.
Back in 1921, a Stanford University psychologist, Lewis Terman, selected 1,528 kids for a study on what demographic and psychological factors enabled students to excel, in both their early years and later in life.
As Ms. Field noted, such cuts would come on top of this year's sizable reductions in education spending, including the elimination of the year-round Pell Grant program, which enabled students to receive two grants a year.
