Archive of Selected Recent Literature on Technology and Education 2014
The following is a list of articles from 2014 as recommended by the Community. Please note this is not an exhaustive list. Additional article recommendations can be made by submitting a comment to the Committee. Find earlier articles in the Archive.
- Colleges Reinvent Classes to Keep More Students in Science
December 26, 2014, The New York Times
- Coding Companies Fill a Technology Skills Gap
December 22, 2014, US News and World Report
- Using iPads To Lower the Cost of a Degree
December 18, 2014, Campus Technology
- Room to Experiment
December 12, 2014, Inside Higher Ed
- Teaching About Cybersecurity: Taking Steps to Improve Online Safety and Prevent Data Breaches
December 11, 2014, The New York Times
- The Rise of Digital Poster Sessions: creating new learning interactions in the library
December 10, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Educating Minds Online, an outstanding new book provides a road map for truly effective teaching with technology
December 8, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education - Letting Faculty Drive (response to Survey of Faculty Views on Technology)
November 21, 2014, Inside Higher Ed
- Bean warns universities over digital ‘irrelevance’
November 8, 2014, Times Higher Education
- Lecturer calls for clarity in use of learning analytics
November 6, 2014, Times Higher Education
- An iPad in Every Home
October 30, 2014, Inside Higher Ed
- Online Ed Skepticism and Self-Sufficiency: Survey of Faculty Views on Technology
October 29, 2014, Inside Higher Ed
- Universities Rethinking Their Use of Massive Online Courses
October 17, 2014, The New York Times
- Moocs ‘will not transform education’, says FutureLearn chief
October 14, 2014, Times Higher Education
- Seeding Social Media
October 14, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Online and In Control
October 10, 2014, Inside Higher Ed
- Residual Learning Environments: “Students never leave my course”
October 9, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 3 ‘Game Changing’ Ideas From an Ed-Tech Start-Up Competition
October 2, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Optimism About MOOCs Fades in Campus IT Offices
October 1, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- MOOC U: The Revolution Isn't Over
September 29, 2014, Chronicles of Higher Education - Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class
September 25, 2014, The New York Times
- Beware IT crowd: Facebook hubs may influence grades
Lecturers should consider impact of social media support groups for courses
September 25, 2014, Times Higher Education (UK)
- Wanted: Long-Term Thinking about Technology and Education
September 16, 2014, Scientific American - Engaging Students Requires a Renewed Focus on Teaching
September 15, 2014, Chronicles of Higher Education
- With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise
September 14, 2014, The New York Times - 'Mobile' Schools Use Technology to Break Free of the Classroom
September 7, 2014, Wall Street Journal
- So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class
September 5, 2014, The New York Times - Student-Built Apps Teach Colleges a Thing or Two
August 27, 2014, The New York Times - The Global Search for Education: The Top 10
August 25,2014, The Huffington Post - How Students Learn From Games
In the second of a three-part series, a professor looks at the use of simulation games in the classroom
August 25, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Can Google Go to the Top of the Class?
August 19, 2014, Forbes - The Future of College?
August 13, 2014, The Atlantic - State Education Technology Policy Update
August 5, 2014, The Brookings Institution - Universities ahead for technology in education, finds OECD
July 26, 2014, Times Higher Education - My Course, Your Content (on Ithaka S+R's report)
July 21, 2014, Inside Higher Ed - With Scrim and Rolling Desks, a Journalism School Seeks a Tech Edge
July 21, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education - The Post-LMS LMS
July 18, 2014, Inside Higher Ed
- Why Higher Education Cannot Resist Disruptive Change
July 16, 2014, Forbes - Unbundling Versus Designing Faculty Roles
July 16, 2014, American Council on Education - Beyond the Inflection Point: Reimagining Business Models for Higher Education
July 16, 2014, American Council on Education
- Interactive Online Learning on Campus
Testing MOOCs and Other Platforms in Hybrid Formats in the University System of Maryland
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July 10, 2014, Ithaka S+R - One Professor Schemes to Keep Colleges in the Web’s Fast Lane
July 10, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Creative destruction - A cost crisis, changing labour markets and new technology will turn an old institution on its head
June 28, 2014, The Economist - The digital degree
June 28, 2014, The Economist
- Google Will Finance Carnegie Mellon’s MOOC Research
June 24, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Guest post: Blending and flipping modern architecture
June 23, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- A Smart Way to Skip College in Pursuit of a Job
Udacity-AT&T ‘NanoDegree’ Offers an Entry-Level Approach to College
June 17, 2014, The New York Times
- Colleges Using Online Courses Is Credit Positive, Moody’s Says
June 13, 2014, Bloomberg.com - Data, Data Everywhere
June 10, 2014, Inside Higher Ed
- Via Tablet or Smartphone, Learning With MOOCs
June 4, 2014, The New York Times
- 3 Universities Earn Accolades for Tech Innovation
June 4, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education - Intelligent Campus: Innovative Tools in Education Increase Efficiencies (PDF)
June 3, 2014, Center for Digital Education
- Business School, Disrupted (Harvard Business School)
May 31, 2014, The New York Times - MIT and Harvard release de-identified learning data from open online courses
May 30, 2014, MIT News - Flipped learning skepticism: What about technology?
May 16, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Network
- MOOCs: Expectations and Reality Full Report
May 2014, Cost Studies of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
- The Post-Textbook World: A Revolution in Access
May 9, 2014, WIRED.com
- Technology Provides Foreign-Language Immersion at a Distance
May 5, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education
- A Student-Data Collector Drops Out
April 26, 2014, The New York Times
- Out in Front, and Optimistic, About Online Education
April 13, 2014 The New York Times
- Brain Rewires Itself, Panic at Eleven.
April 7, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Network
- Ex-Chief of Kaplan Aims to Build a Rival Digital Learning Company
April 6, 2014, The New York Times - Toward a common definition of “flipped learning”
April 1, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Network - Ex-Yale President to Join Online Education Venture
March 24, 2014, The New York Times - What Color Is Your Online Adult Course?
March 18, 2014, The New York Times - 2013 Online Learning Report, Grade Change Tracking Online Education in the United States (PDF)
March 11, 2014, Babson Survey Research Group
Report Infographic, Grade Change (PDF ) - Work in Progress, the Online Learning Summit
March 10, 2014, Inside Higher Ed - No, His Name Is Not Ted - Chris Anderson, Curator of TED Talks, Builds his Brand
March 7, 2014, The New York Times - Online Ed Disconnect
March 6, 2014, Blog from Inside Higher Ed - Getting student buy-in for the inverted calculus class
March 6, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education - Creating learning objectives, flipped classroom style
March 5, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education - The inverted calculus course: Using Guided Practice to build self-regulation
March 4, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education - The inverted calculus course and self-regulated learning
March 3, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education - Textbook Publishers Push to Provide Full Digital-Learning Experience
March 3, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education - Conjecture, Tension, and Online Learning
February 24, 2014, Educause Review Online
- MOOCs: Been There, Done That
January 20, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education
- Tempered Expectations
January 15, 2014, Inside Higher Ed - Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise, Survey Finds
January 15, 2014, Chronicle of Higher Education - Applying Science of Learning in Education: Infusing Psychological Science into the Curriculum (2014)
Society for the Teaching of Psychology - NMC Horizon Report: 2104 Higher Education Edition
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