Blog Juice for Educational Technology

At Telford College, in Scotland, wireless networking could be putting an end to personal space. The college’s new campus, located on the Edinburgh waterfront, will eschew personal offices in favor of a hot-desking environment — two open, spacious rooms where…

Students from the Savannah College of Art and Design and California State Polytechnic University at Pomona have taken top honors in a computer-security video contest sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance and Educause, the higher-education technology consortium. For the…

The ranks of students who still submit college applications on paper, not online, are dwindling rapidly. But at least for today, applicants to the University of Kansas who took the old-school route are patting themselves on the back. The university…

The University of Idaho discovered that putting a public-speaking course partially online saved it money and was more convenient for students. Technology officials at the university say they devised a way to put some course material online, while keeping some…

As college officials across the country debate the merits of investing in legal downloading services, they face a tricky question: Are the Napsters, Ruckuses, and Cdigixes of the world really in business for the long haul? Rumors are swirling that…

Student-government officials at North Dakota State University are rallying against a proposal that would lift a cap on the fee students pay to support the institution’s administrative computer software. The software, according to state higher-education officials, is an integral part…

Students at Ohio University’s College of Education were none too thrilled when three local bookstores told them they were required to buy a $120 computer program. And they may be even less pleased now: Campus officials have said that the…

Forty-two college students who have been sued by the recording industry for sharing copyrighted music are demanding that i2hub, the file-swapping service they used, pay the damages sought from them. The service, which shut down in November, tricked them into…

How can a public library lure Google-happy students back to its shelves? Officials of Park Ridge Public Library, in Illinois, have an idea: Lend out video games along with books. The library has secured finances to start a collection of…

It’s a scene that a Godard-obsessed student filmmaker might conjure up: A group of students standing on the roof of a building, dropping old computers onto pavement 60 feet below. But when the scene played out this week at Chadron…

Microsoft Corporation on Thursday released a patch for its Windows operating systems to fix a major vulnerability that, security experts said, left computers over the world open to attack by hackers. The company released the patch five days ahead of…

The University of Cincinnati has become the latest institution to hop on the coursecasting bandwagon. At least seven professors at Cincinnati will try out the technology — which lets professors record lectures and post them online for students to download…

Besides a rich bouquet and firm tannin, what makes a good wine? Countless vintners have pondered the question, but scientists have never managed to make complete sense of the mysterious process of fermentation. Still, Lorenz Biegler, a professor of chemical…