By Lawrence Biemiller. Students and campus-security officials alike are increasingly turning to mobile apps to report incidents and disseminate emergency information—in part because students are “mobile-device driven,” as one university police chief puts it, and in part because those devices incorporate features, like GPS and cameras, that can come in handy when reporting a problem. More...

By Lawrence Biemiller. Four educational-technology businesses have filed objections to a Federal Communications Commission plan under which companies could pay extra to have their content delivered more quickly over the Internet. The companies said in a joint news release that ending the current policy of net neutrality in favor of high-speed toll lanes. More...

By Joshua Kim. The updates to Apple’s iTunes U Courses app look to be welcome improvements.
Instructors and course designers will now be able to create private iTunes U courses directly from the app. In the past the course build process went through the browser. Read more...