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By Amanda Ripley, part of Time's cover story on Reinventing College, Oct 18 2012. In this piece, Ripley provides a brief survey of the three major university-related MOOC suppliers: Udacdity, Coursera and EdX. The author describes a Udacity physics course (which she deems among the best of those MOOCs she sampled) and then compares it to physics courses at Georgetown University and University of DC.

By Nick DeSantis, technology column, The Chronicle of Higher Education April 15 2012. According to this article, at present most student-related data (grades, course selection, graduation rates, etc.) is "locked-up" within colleges. In this new era of "open data" the Dept of Ed and others are calling on colleges and universities to make this data more accessible to developers -- including students in their own institutions.

Part of the Solve for X project, posted on YouTube by wesolveforx on Feb 7 2012. Crow is president of Arizona State University and his "moonshot project" (in the parlance of Solve for X) is to re-think higher education. In this brief video, he describes some of the changes he's brought to ASU in the last 10 years. For more on this project, follow tag solve_x.

Doesn't talk about technology, per se, but does talk about the need to shake up the institutions.

Oxford Brookes University (UK) is developing a 5-week MOOC based on the content of their course, First Steps Into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. The project is being funded by the Higher Education Academy. Many of the February 2012 posts to this blog describe the project. Stay tuned for more information.

A special feature in the Technology section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 26 2012. The 12 Innovators run the gamut and include an advocate for mobile learning, edu-Punk and digital storytelling (ds) 106 guru, ideas about open learning from Carnegie Mellon, and the director of Hathi Trust's digital library. None of these profiles is in-depth, but each might launch a more in-depth look at the individual or his/her project.

Related: Hacking the Academy. One of the innovators mentioned in this article, Dan Cohen, is at George Mason University, the institution behind Hacking the Academy.

By Diana G. Oblinger, in EDUCAUSE Review, 45(2), March/April 2010. In an opinion piece, the President and CEO of EDUCAUSE looks at the future of higher education.

By Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman for the Newark Star-Ledger, May 5 2010. NJ Governor Christie is appointing a panel to study higher education issues in New Jersey; the panel will be led by former governor (and former university president) Tom Kean.

By Tracy Jan in the Boston Globe, May 5 2010. In Massachusetts, a new plan to "measure and report student achievement," called the Vision Project. Development of the plan included all 29 of the state's public colleges, universities, and community colleges.

Published in AccreditedOnlineColleges.org on March 16, 2010. For the Twitterers among us, some feeds worth review.

Home page of the popular print- and web-based journal. There are some interesting RSS feeds, including Wired Campus and a community college e-newsletter.

"Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education." In addition to a daily e-mail, there are also a variety of RSS feeds.

Program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the page includes program news, news of recent grants and publications, and the relevant program staff.

From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the page discusses recent grants and topics of interest in postsecondary education.

This site bills itself as "your one stop shop for higher education news, collaboration and innovation." There are a variety of resources (websites, videos, webinars, etc.), as well as forums and groups. Because the site promotes collaboration, membership is encouraged.

By Doug Lederman in Inside Higher Ed, May 12 2010. Review of the Action Analytics Symposium, which was co-sponsored by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (29 public 2-year and 4-year institutions) and Capella Univesrity (a for-profit, online institution). The concept is "a multi-dimensional effort aimed squarely at fundamental and strategic education reform in the context of massive economic, social, and technological change... [A]ction analytics strategically uses data, statistics, predictive modeling and visualization to promote student success, achieve institutional efficiency, and demonstrate transparency."

"where most participants were involved with blended education, Ms. Joosten was shocked to learn that only about 20 percent had faculty development.)"

From their About blurb, "HigherEd Live is a weekly web show focused on the emerging role of social media and digital media marketing in higher education."