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A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges

Students starting school this year may be part of the last generation for which "going to college" means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors. Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering. Colleges, like newspapers, will be torn apart by new ways of sharing information enabled by the Internet. The business model that sustained private U.S. colleges cannot survive. Read article.

When Online is Better than Face to Face

There is an assumption that a face-to-face interaction delivers a better result than a 'cold' online interaction. But that is not always the case. Read more.

10 Big Ways the Recession is Hitting Higher Ed

From elementary to college, schools around the nation have felt the recession in many different ways. As the economy sinks, the educational demands rise. Teachers are holding on to dear life for their jobs, students are struggling to pay for college and the states are running out of school funding. But even with all of these economic woes, there are still people eager to teach and happy to learn. Read more.

Fear of iPods and Facebook in classrooms does not compute

We expect businesses to use new technology. Why not teachers? Read more.

Phones, PCs put eBooks within easy reach

Thanks largely to Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, eBook sales are finally zooming after more than a decade in the doldrums--and students at five campuses this fall will pilot Amazon's textbook-friendly Kindle DX to read electronic versions of their textbooks. Read more.

Tech helps students adopt good study habits

Purdue University will launch an online program this fall designed to help struggling students before it's too lat. Read article.

Schools get help in using Web 2.0 tools

Web 2.0 tools hold great promise for education, but they also pose a number of challenges for educators. To help teachers and administrators navigate these challenges, while also becoming "disruptive leaders" in their schools, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has released two new whitepapers as part of its recent focus on Web 2.0 and education. Read more.