When you sign up for Facebook, you enter into a bargain. You share personal information with the site, and Facebook agrees to obey your wishes when it comes…
Jacqueline Moloney wants college students to do less transcribing and more listening. Moloney, head of online learning at UMass Lowell, has overseen an effort to make lecture capture…
The latest Facebook privacy fiasco shows that the world's largest online social hub is having a hard time putting this thorny issue behind it even as it continues…
A Vermont judge heard arguments but didn't rule Oct. 18 on a lawsuit aimed at forcing the state to reveal whether and how its criminal investigators use cell…
Higher-education faculty and administrators got another lesson in the pitfalls of electronic communication and viral eMail messages last week when a University of Missouri dean mistakenly sent a…
In a move that might trickle down to the rest of the for-profit education market, the University of Phoenix—the nation’s largest provider of online college classes—says it will…
The government is reviewing an Australian program that will allow internet service providers to alert customers if their computers are taken over by hackers and could limit online…
What is a university education worth? Who derives the benefits? And who should pay for it? These were just some of the questions that pushed their way onto…