http://chronicle.com/topic/Technology/109/ Topics :: Technology Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:34:32 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130741/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/ A Kansas State University scholar finds himself rethinking the fundamentals and questioning whether technology is the best way to engage students.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130482/ http://chronicle.com/article/As-Scholarship-Goes-Digital/130482/ Researchers, librarians, and programmers work in a loose partnership to develop alternative methods of tracking research's paths through social media.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130399/ http://chronicle.com/article/Apples-New-E-Textbook/130399/ Apple's build-your-own-book tool is likely to lead to more fragmentation in the market rather than becoming a dominant new model.

]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:30:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130241/ http://chronicle.com/article/Badges-Earned-Online-Pose/130241/ A seemingly playful alternative to grades and degrees is taking hold in open-education circles.

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130062/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Moneyball-Approach-to/130062/ Educators are mining student data to help forecast and improve their success.

]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129838/ http://chronicle.com/article/Tired-Students-Skip-Sleep-for/129838/ Dependence on their cellphones can lead to depression and anxiety as a result of sleep deprivation, reports a professor at the University of Rhode Island.

]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129820/ http://chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Rate/129820/ Students commenting on the site tend to reach a consensus quickly, making it possible to draw crude judgments about professors' clarity and helpfulness, a paper says.

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:59:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129652/ http://chronicle.com/article/Escalation-in-Digital/129652/ Technology has made finding plagiarism easier. Now students can vet their work against the same database that professors use.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129604/ http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Map-an-Online-Future/129604/ Driven by growing demand, cost savings, and pedagogical innovations, several colleges are experimenting with hybrid or fully digital teaching methods.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129606/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Digital-Natives-Arent/129606/ Proponents of the new learning technologies ignore the human side of using them. Just because we can use something doesn't mean we should.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129603/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-US-Soldiers-in/129603/ With military personnel better educated and eager to advance their careers, the past decade has seen a surge in the number of troops pursuing studies while deployed.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129610/ http://chronicle.com/article/Assessment-Changes-Online/129610/ Great strides are being made in the quality of online courses, enabling a revolution in service to nontraditional students.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129609/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Social-Network-Can-Be-a/129609/ When students write for one another, or even for the world, they produce authentic expressions of what they've absorbed in class.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129608/ http://chronicle.com/article/Online-Programs-Face-New/129608/ Accreditors and the U.S. Department of Education go head-to-head over online learning.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129607/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Myth-of-the-Tech-Savvy/129607/ Why wouldn't we educate students in sophisticated uses of the Internet, which commands an increasing amount of the world's time and attention?

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129611/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Chain-of-For-Profit-Art/129611/ A lawsuit claims that recruiting success comes at the expense of students who later find themselves unemployed and deep in debt

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129613/ http://chronicle.com/article/Art-Programs-Build-Models-for/129613/ Despite questions about the use of computers in creative courses, some students and faculty embrace tutorials and videotaped lectures for mastering tactile skills.

]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129542/ http://chronicle.com/article/Steal-These-Words/129542/ "Anyone who believes that humans have exhausted all possible recombinations of ideas, words, and images needs to review basic mathematics."

]]> Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129534/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-National-Digital-Public/129534/ Foundations, tech experts, and librarians came together to offer support for the proposed library, which would make many collections accessible to the public online.

]]> Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:52:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129488/ http://chronicle.com/article/Student-Discourtesy-Can-Wreck/129488/ Bad manners in the classroom really have gotten worse. Ignore them at your peril.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129495/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-New-Technology-Campus-/129495/ At stake: New York City real estate and $100-million for a "game changing," science-focused academic venture.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129502/ http://chronicle.com/article/Silicon-Valley-New-York-Style/129502/ Universities are jockeying to build a new tech campus in the city, with Cornell and Stanford vying for the biggest prize.

]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129509/ http://chronicle.com/article/Mobile-Apps-Blackboards-New/129509/ Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129437/ http://chronicle.com/article/Former-Kaplan-Chiefs-Firm/129437/ The investment firm run by Jonathan Grayer has bought Learning House, which works with nonprofit colleges to develop online degree programs.

]]> Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129430/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Profit-Colleges-Future/129430/ With projects like Apollo's new online-learning platform, the colleges may be planning to move in a different direction.

]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129406/ http://chronicle.com/article/MeMy-Mac/129406/ Who knew that you could revise a paragraph without retyping an entire manuscript? Oh, brave new world!

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