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It's appropriate to be cautious about the way MOOCs and other innovations are changing higher education, but efforts are moving ahead to measure and assure their quality, writes Molly Corbett Broad.

When we use the popular phrase as a contrast with academe, we insult our profession and confuse key issues, writes Heather Dubrow.

Colleges need to make residency halls into sites for civic learning, writes Adam Weinberg.

If they are to avoid the fate of Eastman Kodak and Swiss watch makers, colleges need to abandon outdated and idiosyncratic policies and practices that don't put student learning front and center, George Boggs argues.

The capability already exists to deliver "smart" content that adapts to help individual students learn best -- but all the technology tools won't work without significant faculty involvement, write John Cavanaugh.

Remember that distance education isn't a singular thing, and that many of the key debates also apply to traditional instruction, writes Joel Shapiro.

Before jumping to conclusions or buying all the hype, it's important to remember that most technological advances involve considerable trial and error, writes Gary S. May.

Megan Fernandes recalls a graduate seminar that was the last class taught by a great scholar who was dying of cancer.