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MOOCs instead of open education
In Times Higher Education, on MOOCs
Returning to optimism
More for-profit colleges to resign the game
Next Generation Learning/Course Management Systems: New JOLT Issue
On the Way to One's Campus Via Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
Pownce Closes, Moves to SixApart
Hacking User Computers Via Facebook
Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality
Using smartphones to track attendance
Reuters Closes Second Life Desk
YouTube University: UCLA
Teaching in the Wireless Cloud
Seminars via Blog
ARG vs Wikipedia vs Blogosphere
New Atlantis Grapples with Gaming and Flops
Teen Gaming Diverse and Widespread: New Study
Welcome to Liberal Education Today'S New Home
NITLE Launches Online Prediction Markets for Teaching and Technology
Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
Avatars Without Virtual Worlds: an Alternative Platform
Wikipedia delenda est
An Open Cloud Manifesto
Controversy Over British Blocking Wikipedia Content
The Chronicle Spots the Dark Side of Second Life Usage
The Chronicle Fears Second Life, Continued
Most Users Do Not Know Web Office Tools: New Study
College Music Site Ruckus Shuts Down
Google researching new protocol to speed up the Web
More archival images shared by Flickr
Web content visualization tool: new e-reader?
Bryan Alexander Paints Four Futures for Education
How not to write about grade inflation, or education, for that matter
Internet trends: the latest Mary Meeker report
Towards the new caste system: looking back at The New Digital Age
The humanities keep declining: the case of history
A Devil’s Dictionary of Educational Technology
What fake news is doing to digital literacy
The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next
The New Media Consortium: updates and next steps
Beyond the Horizon Report: towards a new project
One university to close, another lays off faculty, and two more will merge
On liberal education surviving the 21st century
Futures thinking with Bruce Sterling
Senior citizens hold more student debt: a Wall Street Journal report
Casualties of the future: college closures and queen sacrifices

An illustrative story about public higher education funding
Alaska gears up to clobber its universities
How to shrink a university and how to talk about it: one campus begins the process
How far will digital video go?
The partisan divide widens over American higher education, and it may cost us
How will higher education respond to climate change?
The most dangerous report in higher education
Higher ed and climate change: the end of academic conferences as we know them
COVID-19 versus higher ed: the downhill slide becomes an avalanche
Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education
How the Coronavirus Will Change Faculty Life Forever
Towards fall 2020 in higher education: what an “in person semester” really means
Looking ahead to higher ed in fall 2021: struggling towards normalcy
Looking ahead to COVID-19’s third year: what it may mean for higher education
Playtesting a university simulation game in a graduate seminar
web3 and higher education: our first Future Trends Forum exploration
How not to write about the costs of higher ed: another example
Why has higher education decided on Zoom?
So you want to create an online class independent of a school
American higher education enrollment declined again, continuing a decade-long trend
A shattered consensus: the end of college for everyone
How many colleges and universities are blocking TikTok?
Employers, hire more people without college degrees, says the New York Times
Some ways for generative AI to transform the world
Redesigning higher education in the spirit of donut economics
Digital storytelling with generative AI: notes on the appearance of AICinema
Some large-scale decisions we can make about AI in 2023
Pondering the fall AI semester with the Chronicle of Higher Ed
One big reason webinars suck
Academic cuts and queen sacrifices across the country
Undergraduate completion rates stabilize; one third of students don't finish college in under six years
Preparing my gaming and education class for spring 2024
How might the Ackman plagiarism campaign play out?


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