Chronicle of Higher Education

A theater instructor at George State University puts on "Hamlet 2.0."

By using the social-media site for class, a professor sees online discussions that are both student-driven and multidirectional.

A college president is enchanted by the diversity and drive of his online students.

Those who stubbornly clung to the railroad business failed, says one college president, while those who diversified, considering their mission as transportation, thrived.

Teaching a MOOC is not for the faint-hearted (or the untenured).

The professor is not interested in the class's completion rate but in the fact that more people are reading the poems than ever before.

Juan E. Gilbert has developed a computer program that provides a true and fair "holistic review," he says.

A veteran community-college leader sees value in knowing the numbers.

The economist and former Princeton president wants to apply rigorous experiments to massive open courses.

An adult student finds new ways of studying and supporting her fellow freshmen.

No MOOC can give young minds the in-person experience of working directly with older experts to create, deepen, and connect ideas.

The push for academic integrity bedevils efforts to fill online vacancies with students who can't get into the classes at their own colleges.

These thinkers are shaking up campuses with some of the biggest ideas in education technology.

Excerpts from "Acts of Faith."

The small college gives $2,000 to each one of its students, many of them low-income, for international study.

Students whose parents earned baccalaureate degrees were the least likely to engage in deep learning.

A study has found that graduates of for-profit institutions' two-year programs earn about the same as students who finish only secondary school.

Through his Interfaith Youth Core, he wants to make religious understanding the keystone of the college experience.

Matthew Goldstein has earned praise for his work leading the 24-institution system, although there remain conflicts with faculty groups over policy.