Teaching

At Sloan-C conference, a Connecticut professor explains how he's using wikis to teach less cosmopolitan students the basics of 21st-century technology and cultural exchange.

Analysis of cheating research finds that key factor isn't whether the course is online, but whether anyone is watching how students take the tests.

Purdue U. creates a learning-management system that meets students on their turf and puts them in charge.

Teaching students how to do Google-style research might not be as harmful to research habits as the alternative.

Regents of Georgia university system individually asked 35 campus leaders how they planned to improve retention and graduation rates. The meetings were occasionally uncomfortable; the answers sometimes unsatisfactory.

An attempt to discourage social media use at Harrisburg U. runs up against students and faculty determined to get their fix.

California's community colleges toughen graduation requirements. Some see changes as overdue; others fear standards are too high.

While many professors still distrust the popular encyclopedia, some have joined a new effort in which they will work with students to improve entries.