Tech & Innovation

WASHINGTON -- Higher education hates the U.S. Education Department's recently enacted regulation requiring institutions to seek and gain approval from...

While experts focus on paying for the projects, Eric Jansson wonders if they need to be rethought to reflect trends in teaching and technology.

The e-learning giant, known for gobbling up smaller companies, is gobbled up by a private equity firm. What does it mean for customers?

UNC-Chapel Hill case raises questions about when it is O.K. for professors to use their university e-mail accounts for personal purposes.

When Cal State Bakersfield put developmental math online and minimized the role of faculty, the program bombed. Changes have restored performance, but not faculty jobs.

Publishers look to help students who use mainstream search engines for research to find more reliable academic content on the open Web.

The same students who say tablet computers are going to revolutionize higher education don't necessarily want to read books on them.

Moving beyond student surveys, recent studies use spyware and sleuthing to study how students use their laptops in class -- with the hope of informing more nuanced policies.