Tech & Innovation

Patrick Iber provides guidance on how to make Twitter work for academic purposes.

Competency-based education can save money for colleges and students, a new report finds, but the efficiency gains won't come easily or without worries about the impact on academic quality.

In recent decades, library and information studies have focused on the information that libraries provide, shortchanging other key roles they play, writes Wayne A. Wiegand.

High school students will soon be able to earn college credit from Oberlin College for instruction neither delivered by the institution nor taught by its faculty members.

U of Michigan starts a “yearlong conversation” about innovation in the classroom to determine what a public research university should look like in the 21st century.

California community colleges unveil online program that allows students to take courses across multiple campuses, a project that replaced a failed attempt to tap for-profit online course providers to meet student demand.

The University of Illinois's iMBA program offers encouraging news about the viability of graduate degrees built on MOOCs.

New book explores what it means to be a scholar at a moment when every aspect of life in academe is being changed by technology.