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Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?
Atlanta — Higher education’s spin on the Silicon Valley garage. That was the vision laid out in September, when the Georgia Institute of Technology announced a new lab for disruptive ideas, the Center...
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After Posting Confidential Student Information, Anonymous Twitter Account Is...
A WikiLeaks-style Twitter account that on Monday published confidential information about Lindenwood University students has been unplugged. The anonymous account, called LindenLeaks, drew the...
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U. of California TV Station Will Develop Original Content for YouTube
YouTube’s continuing effort to put more original videos online has expanded beyond high-profile celebrities and news outlets to include a university television station. In exchange for a $300,000 grant...
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Professor’s ‘Enemies’ Plug-In for Facebook Goes Viral
A Texas professor asked for enemies on Facebook, and he got them. Earlier this week, The Chronicle broke the story of a Facebook app called EnemyGraph, which lets users of the popular network declare...
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Judge Rules Former Nursing Student Cannot Collect Damages for Dismissal Over...
A former University of Louisville nursing student who was dismissed for writing comments about patients on her MySpace page cannot collect damages as a result of being expelled, because she waived her...
View ArticleFor Archivists, ‘Occupy’ Movement Presents New Challenges
Baltimore – Howard Besser, a New York University archivist, recently got into a shouting match at an Occupy protest, making a case for why the activists should preserve records of their activities....
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Social-Studying Network GradeGuru to Close
A start-up that tried to make studying more social is pressing the stop button. GradeGuru, the social-studying Web site run by McGraw-Hill Higher Education, has announced that it will close its doors...
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Facebook Returns to Campus Roots With ‘Groups for Schools’
Before Facebook opened its social network to anyone on the Internet, the platform was limited to college students. And now, it seems, Facebook is returning to its campus roots. Today, the...
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3 Ways College Libraries Are Exploring Pinterest
Pinterest, the social network on which users share collections of images inspired by their hobbies and design interests on digital pin boards, has exploded in popularity since coming online in 2010....
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Students in Free Online Courses Form Groups to Study and Socialize
Map of Udacity meet-ups.As enrollment has rapidly increased in free online classes, also known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC’s, students are increasingly forming groups, both online and in...
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The Real Revolution Is Openness, Clay Shirky Tells Tech Leaders
Denver — Clay Shirky is one of the country’s most prominent Internet thinkers—“a spiritual guide to the wired set,” as The Chronicle Review put it in a 2010 profile of him. In his latest book,...
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In Classroom Experiment, All Discussion Happened via Twitter
Fairfax, Va. — Students at George Mason University shifted their feet and chatted outside a classroom here on Tuesday morning, waiting for Stephen Groening’s class on cellphone cultures to begin. On...
View ArticleA Virtual Meeting Ground for Language and Literature Scholars
Members of the Modern Language Association don’t have to wait for their annual meeting to share scholarship and compare notes on the state of their profession. Now they can meet and greet virtually via...
View ArticleStart-Up Companies Help Colleges Use Social Networks to Connect With Alumni
Today’s alumni may not always take the time to update their alma maters when they move to a different city or get a new job, but they’re likely to keep their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles current....
View ArticleGiving a TED Talk? Expect More Visibility, but Not More Citations
While giving a TED Talk may raise an academic’s visibility online, it has little impact on how researchers are viewed within their own disciplines, a new study suggests. Specifically, the study found...
View ArticleTech Savvy Is Essential to Student Affairs, Survey Finds
People who work in student affairs say that using modern media—including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube—has become a big part of their jobs, according to the results of a new survey. That is not, of...
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‘The Zuckerberg Files’: New Scholarly Archive Scrutinizes Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg In 2010 two privacy scholars published an op-ed criticizing the “Machiavellian” public-relations methods of tech companies like Facebook. They analyzed a PR script that may sound...
View ArticleQuickWire: Facebook Supports Open-Source Movement With an Open Academy
Facebook—a high-profile user of open-source computer code—on Wednesday unveiled a project in which it’s collaborating with a Stanford University professor to match computer-science students with...
View ArticlePosting Your Latest Article? You Might Have to Take It Down
Guy Leonard received an unpleasant surprise in his inbox early this morning: a notice from Academia.edu saying it had taken down a copy of an article of his that he’d posted on the research-sharing...
View Article6 Technologies Will Change Colleges in Coming Years, Experts Say
A panel of 56 experts on six continents has come up with a list of a half-dozen technologies that “will be most important to teaching, learning, or creative inquiry within the next five years.” The two...
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