This morning, Inside Higher Ed posted an article by Steve Kolowich on students from universities around the world earning credit by participating in an experimental Stanford University course that is being broadcasted at no (additional) cost: That A.I. course was the flagship of a trio of Stanford computer science courses that were broadcast this fall, [...]

Libraries are actively reinventing themselves for the digital age.  Confronted with corrosive budgets, skyrocketing costs, and challenged by a fear of obsolesce resulting from the accelerating rate of technological change; libraries are struggling for their survival.  For the academic library — the “heart” of the modern research university — survival requires demonstrating their value in new ways, [...]

Higher education has never been in greater need of innovation. So, why stop fostering it? Today, Inside Higher Ed published a chilling article: [...] the U.S. Education Department quietly revealed this week that the Fund for the Improvement in Postsecondary Education will forgo its main open grant competition. The main reason: The program’s funds have [...]

Inside Higher Ed reports Harvard is investigating interdisciplinary (and some would argue transdisciplinary) models of knowledge production and distribution. The school’s Science Committee issued a report with recommendations that include: transforming undergraduate science education in a hands-on environment, adjust graduate student funding structures to encourage interdisciplinary research, and infuse interdisciplinary practice into the new Allston [...]

The New York Times writes, that in Google’s quest to build the library of the future, the Author’s Guild has filed a lawsuit, claiming “massive copyright infringement.” The lawsuit asked the court to block Google from copying the books so the authors would not suffer irreparable harm by being deprived of the right to control [...]