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Can Apple’s tablet spark a textbook revolution?

Can the release of Apple's eReader tablet do for textbooks what the iPod did for music: combine an online store for purchasing books with sleek hardware that holds every text…

Online college for union members in the works

The National Labor College will make about 20 online courses available for the AFL-CIO's 11.5 million members next fall in an effort to help workers adapt to a job market…

Opinion: Virtual schools are a critical piece of education’s future

Technological innovations might be categorized along a continuum from sustaining to disruptive. In education, a sustaining technology might be a SMART Board, which in most applications is a way to…

Barnes & Noble unveils textbook rental service for colleges

Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. is launching a textbook rental program for college students, making it the newest entrant in a growing field, and officials at book rental services say…

Going rogue: IT officials fight student-run web networks

Campus technology officials say there's only one surefire way to stop students from creating their own wireless internet connections in dormitories and creating a security risk for computer users: provide…

Researchers vie for supercomputer access

Officials who run the most comprehensive cyber-infrastructure dedicated to scientific research are accepting proposals for the next cycle of projects headed by academics who require massive computing power to predict…

Researchers vie for supercomputer access

Researchers vie for supercomputer access

Officials who run the most comprehensive cyber-infrastructure dedicated to scientific research are accepting proposals for the next cycle of projects headed by academics who require massive computing power to predict…

Feds roll out simpler FAFSA form

The new online version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will allow college applicants to skip series of questions that don't apply to them and includes help…

Feds roll out simpler FAFSA form

Feds roll out simpler FAFSA form

The new online version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will allow college applicants to skip series of questions that don't apply to them and includes help…

The top higher-ed tech stories of 2009: No. 3

Although technically it was published in 2008, "Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns," by Clayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, and Michael Horn, made a…

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