The Intel Ministry of Education.

This post comes from the New York Times. There’s been a lot of activity on the technology-and-education front this week. First, One Laptop Per Child, the nonprofit project to bring computers to the developing world’s child, announced an innovative campaign to jumpstart its program.

Today, Intel announced a new initiative to rapidly broaden the reach of its program, Intel Teach. The Intel effort, started in 2000, focuses on training teachers around the world to use personal computers as a tool in classrooms. The company announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York that its program, up to now based on face-to-face instruction for teachers, would add a hybrid online program. In the past, Intel Teach involved 40 hours of in-class training for teachers. The new online offering will include eight to 12 hours of face-to-face instruction, and the rest over the Internet, at the teacher’s convenience. Click here to read the rest of this article.