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Company Sees Opening for OER
Open education advocates launch Lumen Learning, which aims to help institutions replace expensive textbooks with open-source solutions.
Global Ambitions
NYU reinvents itself as a "global network university," but critics at home question the creation of campuses in nondemocratic countries and the effect of rapid international expansion on programs in Greenwich Village.
Free Textbook Company Shelves Clones
Following a lawsuit from major textbook publishers, a Boston company rewrites its "textbook replacement" material and asks judge for breathing room.
Measuring the MOOC Dropout Rate
Are only 10 percent of students finishing courses? It depends on how you count.
Adjuncts on File
As New Jersey's community colleges finalize an electronic repository of adjuncts, instructors off the tenure track are pushing back against a system they fear could be used to exploit them.
Besieged Humanities, Worldwide
Budget cuts? Politicians questioning disciplines' "relevance"? It's not just the U.S. But at international education gathering, a business school offers hope to those who value literature and history.
Intellectual 'Eviction Notice'
Student organizers of a forum at Wharton School revoke invitation to controversial keynote speaker from India after professors oppose his appearance.
Opinion
Cardinal Questions
Can believers and unbelievers find fellowship? Scott McLemee looks at the 21st-century dialogue between faith and reason.