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Cloud Computing Ground War
With sponsorship of Princeton's fall concert, Microsoft ups ante in pitched battle with Google for student hearts and minds.
The Academic Twitterazzi
Scholars debate the etiquette of live-tweeting academic conferences.
Mr. MOOC Comes to Washington
Education Department leaders huddle with hotshots of higher education "disruption" and college leaders to talk about encouraging innovation.
A Disruption Grows Up?
Competency-based education is poised to spread, with expected backing from the Education Department and new ground charted by Southern New Hampshire University.
Spotlighting Hate
Blogs at two universities aim to promote tolerance by highlighting insensitive and offensive comments posted on social media.
Opinion
Humanities in the Digital Age
Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III see opportunities for programs with the right strategies -- opportunities that may be especially valuable amid all of the cuts faced by so many departments.
Marketing to the MOOC Masses
Elsevier will offer free (but basic) digital versions of one of its textbooks to MOOC students through edX, hoping it will drive traditional sales.
Not So Fast on 'Open Access'
Arguing that the issues are different in science and humanities publishing, history association urges caution on movement to make journal access free.