By Paul Basken. For experts in artificial intelligence, the program’s defeat of a human champion of one of the world’s most complex board games holds big implications for society. More...
As Big-Data Companies Come to Teaching, a Pioneer Issues a Warning
By . Candace M. Thille helped kick-start the move to bring big data to college teaching.
She has founded the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, won millions of dollars in grants. More...
Where Are They Now? The Latest From Some Education Innovators
By . Several contestants in The Chronicle’s 2015 "Shark Tank: Edu Edition" have made significant progress in developing their ideas over the past year. Here’s an update on a few of them since their appearance last March at the South by Southwest Edu conference. More...
4 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’
By . Four innovators with four very different ideas for improving higher education brought their pitches to The Chronicle’s second-annual Shark Tank: Edu Edition during the South by Southwest Edu conference in March. More...
3 Takeaways From the SXSWedu Conference
By . Hot topics at the gathering, an offshoot of the South by Southwest festival, centered on how technology is changing the college experience, and what that means for students, professors, and administrators. More...
How LinkedIn Views Its Role in Education
By . Should colleges be worried about this mammoth new education player? The Chronicle spoke with Michael Korcuska, LinkedIn’s vice president of management for learning, who says no. More...
Academic Publishers Experiment With ‘Altmetrics’ to Track Reach and Impact
By . In an increasingly quantified world defined by clicks and shares, academic publishers are looking for ways to track mentions of their articles on social media and other online sources, tapping into a trend among scholars known as "altmetrics". More...
New Credential Aims to Make Professors Into Better Teachers
By . Skeptics of the credential are quick to point out that master’s or Ph.D. degrees already stand as indicators that someone is qualified to teach at the college level. More...
Computer Science, Meet Humanities: in New Majors, Opposites Attract
By . Some academics in the humanities see such integration as a way to bring in students who are drawn to such disciplines but feel they need computing skills for their careers. More...