Technology/Faculty

With the help of a young entrepreneur and thousands of willing college students, campus-specific Web gags go viral.

Rice U. unveils free, digital offering that it says could save students nationwide tens of millions of dollars.

The instructors of Stanford's massively open online artificial intelligence course spin their idea into a for-profit venture.

Any digital textbook revolution that flows from Apple's splashy unveiling may be contingent on everybody adopting its vaunted computing tablet, experts say.

Academics at a research university and a community college talk about why they jumped at chance to be part of new iTunes courses.

LIVE UPDATES: Officials announce 100 new courses produced with colleges, and plans to make textbooks far more versatile.

Universities have started banding together to negotiate favorable contracts with software vendors. With new effort, a group of them aims to exercise similar leverage with publishers on behalf of students.

Two young companies try to elbow their way into the learning-management market, while another looks to subvert it from the outside.

Despite data collection bugs, U.S. News & World Report publishes the first online iteration of its controversial college rankings.

At the MLA, scholars consider how radically to change the traditional models for deciding what gets published.