Tech & Innovation

Writing professors issue warning about plagiarism detection software.

Enough with the tsunami metaphors. At a conference on faculty work and student learning, attendees say language, not technology, is holding back efforts to change the liberal arts.

Forget MOOCs. The true challenge to higher ed will come from models that use cognitive science and technology to remove faculty members from the center of the learning process, writes Richard Holmgren.

Advocates for new teaching technologies say liberal arts institutions should flock to, not fear, online education.

Florida lawmakers want to boost MOOCs and upend the traditional quality control system by letting state officials demand that public colleges grant credit for courses offered by unaccredited institutions.

Coursera, which made a name for itself offering free courses from elite universities, begins to make money.

Survey of professors finds that they identify and use online materials for their own studies, but are less likely to do so for their classrooms.