Filter & Sort
Hype vs. Adoption
Apple iPads are gradually catching up to their hype on four-year campuses; e-textbooks make inroads as well.
Opinion
Saying Yes to Cell Phones in Class
Jed Shahar describes how he found educational value in the tool he once held in disdain.
Online Learning and Liberal Arts Colleges
Bryn Mawr experiments with artificially intelligent teaching software, says "blended" online learning might reinforce, rather than undermine, mission of small, residential colleges.
Disruptive Innovation: Rhetoric or Reality?
At Virginia and elsewhere, would-be reformers cite technology as forcing higher education to change. But that's often an excuse for politically motivated decisions, writes Johann Neem.
Mending Fences
University press directors bemoan ruling in Georgia State copyright case, discuss how to make up with librarians and curb unlicensed copying outside the courts.
The E-Mail Trail at UVa
Records show that board leaders who organized President Sullivan's ouster also wanted a major push into online education.
Affection for PDA
How could the rise of patron-driven acquisition at academic libraries affect the university presses that rely on librarians to buy unpopular monographs?
Social Network for Class of 400,000
Stanford introduces a way for students to get personal in its most popular iTunes U course.