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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.
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.
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.
Pulling for Better E-Textbook Prices
Universities have started banding together to negotiate favorable contracts with software vendors. With new effort, a group of them aims to exercise similar leverage with publishers on behalf of students.
Cracking Up the LMS
Two young companies try to elbow their way into the learning-management market, while another looks to subvert it from the outside.