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Model Romance
For Valentine's Day, Santa Cruz computer scientists unveil a prom-themed role-play that could portend a new frontier for game-based learning.
New Seal of Approval
Digital humanities advocates look to hammer out a publishing platform to help institutions apply traditional peer review mechanisms to nontraditional research.
Breaking Virtual Ground
MITx opens registration for its first "interactive" massively open online course.
Open Access and Interventionism
White House solicitation about the government's role in making federally funded research available to the public rekindles debate over open access.
Why Pay for Intro Textbooks?
Rice U. unveils free, digital offering that it says could save students nationwide tens of millions of dollars.
Defining Fair Use
Association of Research Libraries spells out principles and best practices for making copyrighted materials as free as possible while avoiding lawsuits.
Social Anxiety
Blog-borne debate about a study on the relationship between social media and scholarly communications reaches new levels of meta.
Big Data's Arrival
An ambitious research project is proving the payoffs of predictive analytics in higher ed, and early findings overturn conventional wisdom about student success.