Understanding the New Higher-Ed Landscape: Chronicle Sessions at SXSWedu
Big challenges face higher education these days, and plenty of talk about new models and approaches. At this year’s South by Southwest education conference, in Austin, Tex., The Chronicle is organizing...
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Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, will take a three-month leave of absence to join the Department of Education as a senior adviser to the under secretary of education, Ted...
View ArticleBlogs Aren’t Better Than Journal Assignments. They’re Just Different.
Although some instructors are phasing out journal-keeping assignments in favor of a class blog, a study has found that blogs are not inherently better instructional tools. Drew Foster, a doctoral...
View ArticleHow Social Media Helps Students Adapt to College
For today’s students, social media isn’t just a diversion. It’s a support system. That’s the key finding of a paper exploring the role that Facebook plays in helping students adjust to campus life....
View ArticleWhat Is Being Learned From MOOCs? New Report Takes Stock
The hype around the free online courses called MOOCs has drawn millions of students, who are all essentially part of a teaching experiment of unprecedented scale. These days, researchers are...
View ArticleResearchers Complain About Changes in Amazon Tool Used for Surveys
This week Amazon changed the terms for a service that has become a standard tool in social-science research, and many scholars are complaining that it will mean higher costs to conduct surveys. The...
View ArticleAcademic Social Network Hopes to Change the Culture of Peer Review
An academic social network has added a tool it hopes will shake up the system of peer review. The network is called Academia.edu, and it has grown to more than 25 million registered participants, who...
View ArticleWhat Google’s New Open-Source Software Means for Artificial-Intelligence...
Google wants the artificial-intelligence software that drives the company’s Internet searches to become the standard platform for computer-science scholars in their own experiments. On Monday, Google...
View ArticleHow Tech Tools Can Help Professors Prepare Their Tenure Portfolios
Professors who are on the tenure track carry out every moment of their professional lives with a clock ticking — namely, the tenure clock. From the moment we’re hired and on through the process of...
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Virtual-Reality Lab Explores New Kinds of Immersive Learning
Photo by John T. Consoli, U. of Maryland College Park, Md. — Standing in a virtual-reality lab at the University of Maryland here, Ramani Duraiswami passed around a standard pair of headphones. Music...
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