Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart
Maybe Sugato Chakravarty should wear a helmet to class. The professor of consumer sciences and retailing at Purdue University repeatedly attempts the instructional equivalent of jumping a motorcycle over a row of flaming barrels. OK, asking 250 students to post questions on Twitter during a class doesn't risk life or limb. But it can cause ego damage if the mob of students in his course on...
Wired Campus
- New Group Encourages Colleges to Start Programs in 'Web Science'
- Stanford Doctoral Students Can Now Submit Dissertations Online
- Teaching Tool: Blogging a Mass Killing
- 'The Last.fm for Research Papers' Tops 100,000 Users
- Tweckling Twitterfolk: Chronicle Readers React to the New World of Twitter Conference Humiliation
Open Course
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Free Online Courses, at a Very High Price
Students want them, but colleges struggle to find a workable business model for open courses online.
College 2.0
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Colleges to Try 'Crowdsourcing' Their IT Help Desks
Campuses are introducing tech-support Web sites that will contain answers to problems that anyone on the campus can add to and edit.
- Beam Me to the Faculty Senate: Videoconferencing Comes to Campus
- Despite Risks, IT Officials Outsource Campus E-Mail
Libraries
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Libraries Explore Big Ideas to Overcome Small Budgets
- In Face of Professors' 'Fury,' Syracuse U. Library Will Keep Books on Shelves
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Research Librarians Discuss How to Sell Scholars on Open Access, and More
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Technology News
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Friends and Colleagues Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre
The associate professor of information sciences stopped showing up at the UCLA campus, and now other scholars are seeking him via Twitter and Facebook.
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Business Software, Built by Colleges for Colleges, Challenges Commercial Giants
The Kuali Foundation's new free programs for finance and research administration go up against Big Software.
- Audio: Why Can't Colleges Maintain What They Buy?
- Video: The Buzz at Educause 2009
- Music Industry Changes Tune of New Program to Fight File Sharing
- New Blackboard Tool Connects With Google's Free Services
- Jack Welch Sets Out to Upend Online Business Education
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