Technology

Commercialization offices are fighting a Kauffman proposal that would let researchers take potential commercial ideas to any technology transfer partner, not just their home institution.

Report identifies potential barriers to the widespread adoption of "machine guided" learning software at colleges and universities.

Colleges consider the pros and cons of Pinterest, the fast-growing, image-based social media website, as a marketing platform.

In the most comprehensive review to date of automated essay grading software, U. of Akron researchers find little difference between grades of robot and human readers.

Lasell College mandates that all faculty use basic features in the online learning platform, sparking discussion of traditional colleges, LMS usage and the "data revolution."

Austin Peay University says its new automated advising engine can look at a student's proposed schedule and predict her semester GPA within two hundredths of a point.

Cash-poor students and organizations turn to popular crowdfunding site to fund-raise for projects that institutional sources are unable or unwilling to bankroll.

Two Stanford professors spin off their experiments with massively open online courses (MOOCs) into a company that could serve as a platform for similar projects.

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

Blog-borne debate about a study on the relationship between social media and scholarly communications reaches new levels of meta.