The Digital Professor

“How do you determine what can be flipped?”

With all of this discussion around flipped classrooms, more instructors are asking this question and wondering when and where flipped strategies are best integrated into the learning environment.

Maybe Yahoo should have done its homework before banning work-at-home.
For millions of American companies large and small, telecommuting has become a critical force in boosting worker productivity and growing profits in the information age.

Publishing giant Pearson created Pearson Catalyst, a new program that will match educational startups with the company's brands and resources.

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Whether you teach online, face-to-face, or blended/hybrid courses, podcasts can improve student learning, says Charles Morgan, chair of the mathematics department at Lock Haven University.

Before you head off into the wild world of online learning, consider some of these tips and tricks before teaching an online course or even taking one.

Editor's note: Richard Price is founder and CEO of Academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers.

Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles.

Tablets are reinventing how students access and interact with educational material, and how teachers assess and monitor students’ performance at a time when many schools are understaffed and many classrooms overcrowded.

Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire man of space tourism and founder of Virgin Airlines, is chiding New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer, saying the office will soon become a thing of the past...

Text-to-speech startup iSpeech is rolling out tools for publishers that let them convert books and articles to audio. The first two clients are Pearson and Evernote.

Benedictine University at Mesa aims to improve student engagement and performance by moving away from traditional lecture-based instruction to a lecture-free learning environment.

A company that offers free and low-cost versions of bibliography and citation generation software has launched a Web-based service for teaching students how to research and write research papers.

Monica Rothschild-Boros, an art appreciation and cultural anthropology instructor at Orange Coast College, uses a combination of embedded lecture questions, threaded discussion, and innovative assignments to engage students and get them to think...

CHARLESTON, West Virginia - There's no homework, no tuition and no tests. No credit, either. But now anyone with access to the web can become a college student.

Approval of the Coursera-provided classses could be a major step toward bridging the gap between massive open online courses and traditional higher education.

It's simple, but lovely. Web designer Franck Ernewein's real-time Twitter visualization, Tweetping, drops a bright pixel at the location of every tweet in the world, starting as soon as you open the page.