Technology Articles

MIT Technology Review

A hundred years ago, higher education seemed on the verge of a technological revolution. The spread of a powerful new communication network—the modern postal system—had made it possible for universities to distribute their lessons beyond the bounds of their campuses. Anyone with a mailbox could enroll in a class. Frederick Jackson Turner, the famed University of Wisconsin historian, wrote that the "machinery" of distance learning would carry "irrigating streams of education into the arid regions" of the country.

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The Year of the MOOC

IN late September, as workers applied joint compound to new office walls, hoodie-clad colleagues who had just met were working together on deadline. Film editors, code-writing interns and “edX fellows” — grad students and postdocs versed in online education — were translating videotaped lectures into MOOCs, or massive open online courses. As if anyone needed reminding, a row of aqua Post-its gave the dates the courses would “go live.”

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Survey Reports by The Sloan Consortium

Membership in the Sloan Consortium includes valuable resources to help you and your faculty gain effectiveness in online teaching and learning, with discounted pricing on Sloan-C conferences and workshops, free webinars, discussion groups and peer networking, awards eligibility and more.

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The Chronicle’s 2012 Digital Campus Microsite

The Chronicle’s 2012 Digital Campus Microsite has the latest trends, news, information, and commentary on how to advance your institution’s virtual footprint. Download case studies, white papers, and articles from leading technology companies that are working with institutions around the world to help them advance digital learning on their campuses.

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2012 Online Learning Report

The Chronicle's recently released special report "Online Learning" examines the phenomenon of massive open online courses, or MOOC’s, and the hype, hope, and questions that surround them. Learn from pioneers, converts, skeptics, and the undecided on how, for better or worse, "MOOC mania" is changing online learning at an irrepressible pace.

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