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The Digital Landscape's Blurry Boundaries
A legal spat over e-textbook "enhancement" tools highlights the importance of digital content as tech companies clamber for customers.
Model Romance
For Valentine's Day, Santa Cruz computer scientists unveil a prom-themed role-play that could portend a new frontier for game-based learning.
Breaking Virtual Ground
MITx opens registration for its first "interactive" massively open online course.
Big Data's Arrival
An ambitious research project is proving the payoffs of predictive analytics in higher ed, and early findings overturn conventional wisdom about student success.
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.