How a Hacker Attack Could Alter the Climate Debate
A hacker attack at a university has heated up debate about global warming, just weeks before a major climate summit begins. The attack at the end of last week exposed 1,700 e-mail messages and internal documents from some of the world's leading climate scientists. Those messages, climate-change skeptics say, show that scientists have distorted evidence to bolster a...
Wired Campus
- Too Much Reading? Try Listening Instead
- U. of Texas System Signs Up With Password-Streamlining Service
- Barnes & Noble Says Nook Reader Is Not Ideal for E-Textbooks
- The Computer Stole My Homework -- and Sold It Through an Essay Mill
- Hackers Strike Climate-Research Center, Hoping to Change the Debate
Open Course
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Free Online Courses, at a Very High Price
Students want them, but colleges struggle to find a workable business model for open courses online.
College 2.0
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Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart
Teaching with Twitter means students are more involved. And that can take classes in risky directions, writes Jeffrey R. Young in College 2.0.
- Colleges to Try 'Crowdsourcing' Their IT Help Desks
- Beam Me to the Faculty Senate: Videoconferencing Comes to Campus
Libraries
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Libraries Explore Big Ideas to Overcome Small Budgets
- In Face of Professors' 'Fury,' Syracuse U. Library Will Keep Books on Shelves
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Research Librarians Discuss How to Sell Scholars on Open Access, and More
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Technology News
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Friends and Colleagues Search for a Missing Scholar, Philip Agre
The associate professor of information sciences stopped showing up at the UCLA campus, and now other scholars are seeking him via Twitter and Facebook.
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Business Software, Built by Colleges for Colleges, Challenges Commercial Giants
The Kuali Foundation's new free programs for finance and research administration go up against Big Software.
- Audio: Why Can't Colleges Maintain What They Buy?
- Video: The Buzz at Educause 2009
- Music Industry Changes Tune of New Program to Fight File Sharing
- New Blackboard Tool Connects With Google's Free Services
- Jack Welch Sets Out to Upend Online Business Education
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