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- John Doerr: Coursera 'Could Be Big The Way Google Was' (chronicle.com)
well-known venture capitalist John Doerr is backing Coursera, the upstart provider of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, that is working with elite universities. "It's doing something very, very valuable for free,…
- How an Upstart Company Might Profit From Free Courses (chronicle.com)
How will Coursera make money on free online courses? The Chronicle of Higher Education did a FOIA request for the company's contract with colleges to find out.
- Professor Calls for Taking Unabomber's Tech Critique Seriously (chronicle.com)
The Unabomber continues to write manifestos from prison calling for end of tech. Should we be listening?
- 'Minority Report'-Style Computing Coming to University Research (chronicle.com)
Colleges are installing giant interactive video walls to let students and scholars look at data and scholarly images up close, zoom in and out using gestures. Also they're hoping to get students to get their heads out…
- 'Occupy'Movement Provides Test for Archivists (chronicle.com)
How do you preserve the historical record of an event like the 'Occupy' protests, where little was written down and where so many recorded video and audio footage with smartphones. Archivists see it as a test case, and…
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Many people have called for a 'dislike' button on Facebook, but the service has not allowed it. A professor's app let's users add "enemies," in what he says is critique of the service's advertiser friendly niceness.
- A Boom Time for Education Start-Ups (chronicle.com)
These days education-tech startups are hot... Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002. An confusing assortment…
- Rebooting the Academy: 12 Biggest Innovators Changing Colleges (chronicle.com)
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles 12 of the top innovators and their ideas on transforming campus with tech.
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Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired…
- Movie Studio Invites Itself to Law Schools to Make SOPA Case (chronicle.com)
Just weeks after a Web-fueled backlash stopped a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills from advancing in Congress, Paramount Pictures is trying to cool the debate by courting law professors and asking them to hold…