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Episode 75: Should Colleges Encourage Better Tech/Life Balance?

Naomi S. Baron, a linguistics professor at American University, studies how cell phones and online messaging change social interactions. She talks to the Tech Therapy team about her concern that...

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Episode 76: What ‘The Social Network’ Says About Facebook’s Place on Campuses

The Tech Therapy team looks back on the rise of Facebook, as portrayed in a new Hollywood film, and asks whether colleges have a responsibility to educate students about the network’s privacy...

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Episode 80: IT’s Role in the Library of the Future

Many institutions have merged their information-technology and library operations, sometimes resulting in a clash of cultures. Sue Stroyan, information-services librarian for Illinois Wesleyan...

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Episode 87: A University President’s Tech Confession

Jolene Koester, president of California State University at Northridge, admits that she doesn’t know enough about technology. But she still believes IT is a key piece of her institution’s future, and...

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Episode 88: Why Universities Should Experiment With ‘Massive Open Courses’

George Siemens, who leads Athabasca University’s Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, makes the case for why colleges should experiment with inviting tens of thousands of students to...

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Episode 91: Students Want Colleges to Go Mobile Now, Even if Services Aren’t...

The biggest challenge colleges face when designing new mobile services is a tendency to overplan, argues Cindy Bixler, chief information officer of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The Tech...

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Episode 92: Sex and Technology on Campus—The Risks and Rewards

The social norms around courtship and sex are changing rapidly at colleges, and administrators shouldn’t “bury their heads in the sand” when it comes to student behavior, argues Brian Mustanski, an...

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Episode 93: The Battle Against Bad PowerPoint

Everyone’s heard horror stories about professors who lecture by reading straight from prepared slides. Jose A. Bowen, a dean at Southern Methodist University, hopes to put an end to such disasters. He...

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Episode 97: Campus Leaders Drink Big Gulps of Technology

College leaders just keep demanding more out of their technology. And that’s created challenges not just for presidents, but for CIO’s: How do you ward off information overload? What about those...

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Episode 101: Giving Everyone at College a ‘Domain of One’s Own’

Jim Groom, director of teaching and learning technologies at the University of Mary Washington, describes the university’s new effort to offer every student and professor an online domain name to use...

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Episode 107: The Answers Colleges Should Be Prepared to Give

In his new book, College (Un)bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students, Jeffrey J. Selingo, The Chronicle’s editor at large, argues that parents and prospective students...

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