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The Pulse: Handwriting and Voice Capture

This month's edition of The Pulse podcast examines various services that instructors can use to capture their handwriting or voice to embed into learning modules for the flipped classroom or massive open online courses.
Opinion

Learning to Adapt

Curricular systems and materials that adapt to the learner are emerging slowly but surely as a potentially major force in higher education, Peter Stokes writes.
Opinion

The Mad World of 'Mad Men'

Just in time for the new season, a new book looks at cable TV's hit historical drama about advertising in the 1960s. Scott McLemee grabs the remote control.

Three's Company

Stanford University, birthplace of two MOOC companies, decides to work with a nonprofit started by MIT and Harvard.

Different Medium, Similar Message

Acclaimed director Martin Scorsese delivers the 42nd Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, arguing for cinema's importance as an object of analysis -- and therefore of preservation.

Final Loss for Ward Churchill

U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal over his firing by the University of Colorado.
Opinion

Jesus and Academic Freedom

Florida Atlantic University's handling of public attacks on one of its faculty members featured plenty of doublespeak and not much principle, writes Cary Nelson.

'I Was Doing My Job'

Deandre Poole, the instructor whose Florida Atlantic U. class exercise involving the word "Jesus" led to death threats and demands that he be fired, offers his first interview on what happened that day, on his faith and on academic freedom.