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http://chronicle.com/article/Coursera-Throws-a-Massive/133227/

well-known venture capitalist John Doerr is backing Coursera, the upstart provider of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, that is working with elite universities. "It's doing something very, very valuable for free, so it's going to scale to be enormous," he said in an interview over the weekend.

http://chronicle.com/article/How-an-Upstart-Company-Might/133065/

How will Coursera make money on free online courses? The Chronicle of Higher Education did a FOIA request for the company's contract with colleges to find out.

http://chronicle.com/article/Online-Courses-Can-Offer-Easy/132093/

A revolution in education thanks to online courses could be in store, as Thomas L. Friedman and others have predicted. But significant challenges remain, not least among them preventing students from fraudulently claiming an education that they didn't get.

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Unabombers-Pen-Pal/131892/

The Unabomber continues to write manifestos from prison calling for end of tech. Should we be listening?

http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Look-to-Big-Screen/131609/

Colleges are installing giant interactive video walls to let students and scholars look at data and scholarly images up close, zoom in and out using gestures. Also they're hoping to get students to get their heads out of their laptop screens to collaborate on projects on the big shared walls. Will Big-Screen Research be the future?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/for-archivists-%E2%80%98occupy%E2%80%99-movement-presents-new-challenges/35929

How do you preserve the historical record of an event like the 'Occupy' protests, where little was written down and where so many recorded video and audio footage with smartphones. Archivists see it as a test case, and have worked with protesters, and sometimes gotten in shouting matches.

http://chronicle.com/article/College-20-Social-Media/131300/

Many people have called for a 'dislike' button on Facebook, but the service has not allowed it. A professor's app let's users add "enemies," in what he says is critique of the service's advertiser friendly niceness.

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Boom-Time-for-Education/131229/

These days education-tech startups are hot... Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002. An confusing assortment of new players are hoping to profit as colleges try to do more with less through tech. Coursekit, Courseload, CourseRank, Udacity, Udemy, and University­Now.

http://chronicle.com/article/Rebooting-the-Academy-12-Tech/130926/

The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles 12 of the top innovators and their ideas on transforming campus with tech.

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/

Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired magazine gave him a Rave Award. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching once named him a national professor of the year. But now Mr. Wesch finds himself rethinking the...

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/after-uproar-over-anti-piracy-bill-a-movie-studio-courts-law-professors/35285

Just weeks after a Web-fueled backlash stopped a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills from advancing in Congress, Paramount Pictures is trying to cool the debate by courting law professors and asking them to hold conversations about how to prevent copyright infringement.