Tech & Innovation

Jonathan A. Poritz warns that colleges and universities should not rush too quickly to embrace the new technology for distributed public ledgers on the internet.

Early-alert systems designed to catch struggling students are ubiquitous in higher ed, but not every institution is seeing desired results.

A new documentary film taking aim at for-profit publishers is about to be screened at universities around the world, but will it further the goals of the open-access movement?

The etextbook distributor thinks it can create a major adaptive learning platform -- but will big publishers buy in by letting VitalSource turn their content into courseware?

Amid the hype, the technology really does have major implications for higher education research, accountability and credentials, Daniel Pianko writes.