By Lindsay Oden. If we know anything about dissertations and theses, it’s that they will consume your life-energy and regurgitate you as a husk of your former self. They demand time, attention, vitality, and money. For those in the humanities, less than half of PhD students finish dissertations, and the numbers aren’t much better for social sciences and STEM. Read more...
Up next for textbooks? The bionic book
A new technology developed at Penn State works with faculty to automatically build complete textbooks from open resources on the web. The texts are organized according to topics and keywords provided by a user. More...