|
Wired Campus
|
|
-
Temple Project Ditches Textbooks for Homemade Digital Alternatives
The university gave professors grants to create cheaper, more interesting learning materials.
-
MIT’s New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program’s Leader Says
Two academics working on the new service answer questions about how it will work and what it means for the status quo.
-
New Media Consortium Names 10 Top ‘Metatrends’ Shaping Educational Technology
Among them are global adoption of mobile devices and the rise of cloud computing.
-
Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics
Scientists are calling on fellow researchers to avoid doing any work for the giant publisher, in a protest against policies that they say restrict access to information.
-
Stalled ‘Hubble Telescope of Supercomputers’ Resumes Construction
Last week new servers began arriving at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as part of the effort to build the world's fastest research computer.
-
Some Associations, Scholars Protest Bill That Would Curb Public Access to Research
Among the opposition: the Modern Language Association, which says the measure would place "unnecessary limits on the free flow of ideas."
-
Fair-Use Guide Seeks to Solve Librarians’ VHS-Cassette Problem
Academic librarians have avoided digitizing the tapes because of copyright law. A new code of best practices could help them navigate such issues.
-
Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
The professor, who taught an online artificial-intelligence course to more than 160,000 students, has abandoned his teaching post to aim for an even bigger audience.
-
Campus Reactions to Apple’s Entry Into E-Textbook Market
College administrators and professors had mixed reactions to Apple's plans to "reinvent the textbook" in digital form, announced last week.
-
Students’ Video Game Tests New Artificial-Intelligence Engine — at the Prom
Few rituals conjure a storm of emotions like the high-school prom. A team of students at the University of California at Santa Cruz saw opportunity in that pre-prom angst to craft a new kind of video game.
|
News Feeds