Tech & Innovation

When Cal State Bakersfield put developmental math online and minimized the role of faculty, the program bombed. Changes have restored performance, but not faculty jobs.

Publishers look to help students who use mainstream search engines for research to find more reliable academic content on the open Web.

The same students who say tablet computers are going to revolutionize higher education don't necessarily want to read books on them.

Moving beyond student surveys, recent studies use spyware and sleuthing to study how students use their laptops in class -- with the hope of informing more nuanced policies.

U. of Chicago library, running out of shelf space, devises a solution that doesn't involve shipping books off campus.

Online faculty burnout may have more to do with a professor's personality than with the medium itself.

E-readers are in, but e-textbooks are not, according to a new student survey.

The scholarly video-book isn't just about different media, writes Alexandra Juhasz. It's about rethinking the idea of authors, readers, time and more.