http://chronicle.com/topic/Technology/109/ Topics :: Technology Fri, 18 May 2012 03:16:29 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131789/ http://chronicle.com/article/Hot-Type-Elsevier-Experiments/131789/ Working with an open-access advocate, the publisher has hammered out a deal with the University of British Columbia.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131659/ http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Virginias-President/131659/ Teresa Sullivan never forgets that technology must prove its worth and should be set aside when face-to-face meeting are needed.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131662/ http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Phoenixs-Chief-Calls/131662/ William J. Pepicello, who composed his dissertation on a typewriter, now runs the sprawling online-education venture.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131663/ http://chronicle.com/article/So-Youve-Got-Technology-So/131663/ Investment in IT doesn't matter if colleges are just going to keep conducting business as usual.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131669/ http://chronicle.com/article/Baseball-Batsthe-Wired/131669/ A librarian ponders print books and wooden sports equipment while appreciating today's technology.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131667/ http://chronicle.com/article/Old-School-President-Slowly/131667/ Christopher B. Nelson of St. John's College likes books better than e-readers and still hasn't memorized his cellphone number.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131673/ http://chronicle.com/article/Cloud-Technology-Can-Lift-the/131673/ Colleges that leverage Web-based technologies will be more innovative and productive.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131672/ http://chronicle.com/article/Open-Educations-Wide-World-of/131672/ Who uses open courseware? Orphans in Mongolia. Teachers in California. Scientists in the Arctic. And yak herders in Tibet.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131670/ http://chronicle.com/article/Whos-Paying-the-Data-Bill-/131670/ When it comes to the economics of research-generated data, someone will have to cover the costs.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131660/ http://chronicle.com/article/Reclaiming-the-Classroom-With/131660/ Backing off from PowerPoint helped a professor keep students' attention from straying to Twitter.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131674/ http://chronicle.com/article/At-Spokane-Community-Colleges/131674/ Christine Johnson likes practical tools like Google Maps and her good old-fashioned BlackBerry.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131664/ http://chronicle.com/article/Leader-of-NYUIts-Global/131664/ John Sexton was late to embrace e-mail, but now he's among the most electronically accessible presidents.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131665/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Digital-Boot-Camp-for-Grad/131665/ The goal is to provide a small team with soup-to-nuts training in software development for humanities research and exchange.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131666/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Virtues-of-Blogging-as/131666/ In terms of intellectual fulfillment and productivity, blogging wins hands down over traditional scholarly tasks, a professor says.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131726/ http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Networks-for-Academics/131726/ "It's basically Facebook for nerds," says one participant, who likes the access to research papers. But some scholars, feeling communication overload, can't be bothered.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131615/ http://chronicle.com/article/Debate-at-NY-Public-Library-/131615/ Critics say that the system doesn't work well in practice and that taking books out of the heart of the library sends the wrong message to users.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131609/ http://chronicle.com/article/Big-Screen-Research-Helps/131609/ High-resolution video walls let students and researchers show images in greater detail and collaborate on projects better.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131552/ http://chronicle.com/article/Portable-Education-Data-One/131552/ Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131551/ http://chronicle.com/article/Unlocking-Student-Data-Could/131551/ Start-up companies want to pry the information loose from campus servers in order to offer personalized services that could transform the student experience.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131395/ http://chronicle.com/article/What-Makes-a-Top-Tier-Online/131395/ 2tor builds online degree programs for selective colleges, including top-quality videos.

]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131371/ http://chronicle.com/article/Scholarship-Liberated-From/131371/ Today almost all research papers are born digital. And it's past time for tenure-and-promotion committees to deal with this reality.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:02:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131390/ http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Endlessly-E-Mail/131390/ Piazza works like an online study hall, allowing students to pose questions to their professors and to one another.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131306/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Protect-Your-Students/131306/ In the wake of the Rutgers case, three areas to focus on.

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131300/ http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Media-Blasphemy-An/131300/ An application that allows Facebook users to "enemy" people is meant to make us think critically about social media, its creators say.

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131248/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Protect-Your-Students/131248/ In the wake of the Rutgers case, three areas to focus on.

]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131229/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Boom-Time-for-Education/131229/ After years of avoiding the education sector, venture capitalists are scrambling to bet on the emerging market.

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