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Rosetta Reservations
Should software replace professors in introductory language courses? Should colleges be splitting fees with a software company for helping to provide credit for such instruction?
Free Courses, Elite Colleges
Through a new company, professors at Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford, UVa and other high-profile institutions are making their courses available online free.
Behind the Digital Curtain
Could weaving the digital humanities into undergraduate education help improve students' information literacy?
Massive Courses, Sans Stanford
The instructors of Stanford's massively open online artificial intelligence course spin their idea into a for-profit venture.
Standing Up for Teaching
Johns Hopkins University asks research-oriented faculty to re-evaluate their introductory science classes.
Relaunching the iPad
Any digital textbook revolution that flows from Apple's splashy unveiling may be contingent on everybody adopting its vaunted computing tablet, experts say.
Apple's Faculty
Academics at a research university and a community college talk about why they jumped at chance to be part of new iTunes courses.
Libraries: A Paper Wikipedia
With the open-source encyclopedia blacked out to protest U.S. Internet bill, college librarians offer their services (and verifiable sources).