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Getting (Digital) Respect

MLA issues new guidelines on how work with new media should be counted in hiring, tenure and promotion decisions.

Proto-MOOC Stays the Course

Open course in digital storytelling, a holdover from before open learning was associated with massive tools wielded by celebrity professors, remains content with its modest but devoted following.

Pacing Themselves

Pearson announces new self-paced, general education courses in hope of catching overflow from crowded colleges. Ivy Tech cautiously becomes its first partner.

Elite Universities' Online Play

With help from venture-backed company, Princeton, Penn and U. of Michigan announce they will become the latest high-profile universities to offer free, interactive courses to massive online audiences.

A Win for the Robo-Readers

In the most comprehensive review to date of automated essay grading software, U. of Akron researchers find little difference between grades of robot and human readers.

The Pulse: Interview With David Yaskin

This month's edition of The Pulse podcast features a conversation with David Yaskin, CEO and founder of Starfish Retention Solutions...

The MITx Factor

Several weeks into MIT's massive open online teaching experiment, faculty ponder how it could change the university.

The Nonprofit Online Helpers

Hoping to attract colleges skittish about partnering with a for-profit company, Excelsior College opens new venture aimed at helping traditional colleges move online.