• New York, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 12:14 AM

Joel Klein exited his job as NYC school chancellor for News Corp. And with Murdoch, he'll probably target as his next endeavor one of the most fertile areas of innovation today: the application of digital technology to learning. In the next few years, "what you're going to see in educational software and new solutions and online learning is going to be game-changing," says Klein, in terms of "the ability of new technology to both improve instruction and the quality of it through new learning platforms."

Klein is no expert in this area, but in his time as chancellor, he became convinced of the need to move away from what he calls "this sort of 20th-century model of one teacher trying to master all the content and information and deliver it to 25 children, who are performing at different levels." In 2009, he launched the School of One, a pilot program using virtual tutors, online lessons, and real-time data to create a highly individualized model of instruction. Whether through investments or acquisitions, Murdoch intends to ride this wave, ideally to the benefit of both the education system and News Corp.'s bottom line.

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