Archive of Selected Recent Literature on Technology and Education 2015
The following is a list of articles from 2015 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 pages.
- The Most Popular Online Course Teaches You to Learn
December 29, 2015, The New York Times
- Welcome to Campus. Here Is Your Diploma. Come Back Soon!
December 15, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Reimagining Online Education
December 14, 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- 3 Web Project Lessons
December 14, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - Virtual-Reality Lab Explores New Kinds of Immersive Learning
December 8, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 61 Ways You Know You Are Talking to an Instructional Designer
November 30, 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- Infographic: 4 learning strategies for flipped learning
November 25, 2015, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Campus Libraries Rethink Focus as Materials Go Digital, interview with Sari Feldman, of the American Library Association
November 25, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- University of Central Florida Offers Personalized Learning for Online Students
November 23, 2015, Center for Digital Education
- Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Chat
November 19, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - Teach locally, share globally on a multilingual Twitter chat
November 18, 2015, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- The Evolution of Distance Learning
Booklet download, Inside Higher Ed
- Online Student Readiness Tutorials
Tutorial downloads, Creative Commons licensed
Online Education Initiative - NSF, Universities Launch Big Data Innovation Hub
November 9, 2015, Center for Digital Education
- Universities Set Up Legal Clinics to Help Student Innovators
November 8, 2015, Chronicle of Higher Education - What We Owe the MythBusters
November 5, 2015, The New York Times
- College Freshmen Fail Online Courses More Often, Study Shows
November 4, 2015 Center for Digital Education
- 'The Right Thing to Do'
November 3, 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- Yuck to Wow: Explaining Science and Technology in Museums
October 27, 2015, The New York Times
- 'Double-Dipping' With MOOCs
October 13, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - University-Run Boot Camps Offer Students Marketable Skills — but Not Course Credit
October 13, 2015, Chronicle of Higher Education
- Digital Textbook Analytics Maximize Student Outcomes
October 1, 2015, Center for Digital Education
- In the Mind of a Student
September 25, 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- Who’s Benefiting from MOOCs, and Why
September 22, 2015, Harvard Business Review
- 4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read ‘The Gift of Failure’
September 20, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - Hands Across the Water
September 15, 2015, Thinking Global, Teaching Local (faculty of Liberal Studies, NYU Faculty of Arts & Science blog) - On Demand, Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department
September 11, 2015, The New York Times - In Sign of the Times for Teaching, More Colleges Set Up Video-Recording Studios
July 31, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Video Feature: Back-to-School Apps for the Organized Student
August 26, 2015, The New York Times
- Unizin Consortium Under Construction
August 12, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - Finding a Career Track in LinkedIn Profiles
July 31, 2015, New York Times - Antiskimming Software
July 15, 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- From Shards to Pixels: A Shattered Adam Statue Comes to Life at the Met
July 10, 2015, The New York Times - Software Will Not Eat Education
July 9, 2015, Blog U, Inside Higher Ed - Make your learning fun and games
June 30, 2015, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference - Texas State Tech College Develops Skills Translator to Match Students With Jobs
June 29, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Software-Defined Networking Opens Innovation Channels for Higher Education
June 18, 2015, Center for Digital Education
- Starter Exercises for Interactive Storytelling
June 18, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- When Guarding Student Data Endangers Valuable Research
June 13, 2015, The New York Times - Graduate Education Gets a Digital Makeover in New York City
June 12, 2015, Center for Digital Education
- Fresno State Increases Students' E-Portfolio Usage Through Competition
June 1, 2015, Campus Technology
- Video Feature: Apps That Bring Science to Life
May 27, 2015, The New York Times
- A Liberal Arts Take on Tech
May 13, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - Online Common Core Testing Lays Bare Tech Divide in Schools
May 11, 2015, The New York Times
- The New Media Consortium Horizon Report, 2015 Higher Education Edition
(PDF Download)
New Media Consortium - Online M.B.A. Reboot
April 29, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - Promising Full College Credit, Arizona State University Offers Online Freshman Program
April 22, 2015, The New York Times
- How LinkedIn’s Latest Move May Matter to Colleges
April 17, 2015, Chronicle of Higher Education
- The Hackathon Fast Track, From Campus to Silicon Valley
April 6, 2015, The New York Times
- Not classy enough, Online learning could disrupt higher education, but many universities are resisting it
Mar 28th 2015, The Economist - Learning to See Data
March 27, 2015, The New York Times
- Innovating Pedagogy 2014
Open University Innovation Report 3 (UK)
- Turning to Education for Fun
March 19, 2015, The New York Times - Anyone can be a Teacher in this Online School
March 19, 2015, The New York Times - Beyond The End of College
March 11, 2015, The Atlantic
- Here’s What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official
March 5, 2015, The New York Times
- As High-Tech Teaching Catches On, Students With Disabilities Can Be Left Behind
February 25, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education - One vision of tomorrow’s college: Cheap, and you get an education, not a degree
February 20, 2015, The Washington Post
- Wired Campus, The latest on tech and education (PDF)
February 11, 2015, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- The 2014 Inside Hhigher Ed Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology (PDF)
Feburary 5, 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States (Babson Survey PDF)
Grade Level infographic (PDF)
Feburary 5, 2015, Inside Higher Ed - Counting the Online Population
Feburary 5, 2015, Inside Higher Ed
- Experts Debate Graduation Rates for Online Students
January 30, 2015, U.S. News & World Report - English Grammar Aids for Both Native Speakers and Students
January 28, 2015, The New York Times - Higher Education is not A Mixtape
January 27, 2015, Atlantic - Academia Welcomes New Skills
January 24, 2015, Boston Globe - Top 10 IT Issues, 2015: Inflection Point
January 12, 2015, EDUCAUSE Review - The Value Problem in Digital Badging
January 5, 2015, Inside Higher Ed