Online students and teachers are no different from the rest of academia
Demand for online higher education is at record levels – yet the model remains a mystery for many. For David Newton, the only mystery is why everyone thinks it's so unusual
A Holocaust survivor’s promise – and why it needed to be fulfilled
Iby Knill vowed she would tell the world what she had seen at Auschwitz. And now her story will forever be told at museums across Europe thanks to a young filmmaker from Teesside University
‘Cyber Jedi’ schools contest a new hope for Britain’s IT empire to strike back
Ministers hope young and logical thinkers of today will in future become the force against dark lords of cybercrime
Sal Khan: the man who tutored his cousin – and started a revolution
Founder of Khan Academy tells how he developed educational website from remote tutorials for his cousin in Louisiana
Inside the mind of Eric Schmidt
More thoughts on North Korea, Julian Assange, privacy and revolution from Alan Rusbridger's interview with Google's Eric Schmidt
University recruitment: one fifth of students say social media doesn’t work
The view of university social media as untrustworthy or irrelevant means students don't look for information there, says Justin Shaw, but used better, these channels could count
Elsevier buys Mendeley: your reaction
The sale of the London-based startup to the publishing giant has prompted strong reactions from the academic community – is the partnership good or bad news for open access research?
4D-printing: from self-assembling chairs to cancer-fighting robots
Project Cyborg will revolutionise the way designers think by training materials to build themselves – and adapt to their surroundings
Jean Floud obituary
Leading educational sociologist and academic who became the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
Open source in higher education: how far have we come?
Universities are ahead of the curve in adopting open source, says Scott Wilson – we should now lead the public sector in exploring its full potential
Does Europe need its own Mooc?
Moocs offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a truly European university, says Alex Katsomitros – and might be the only means of survival for smaller universities
Launching a startup: five tips from an edutech entrepreneur
Victor Henning, chief executive of academic referencing site Mendeley, offers his advice on starting an edutech company
Are edutech startups plugging an innovation gap in our universities?
Does technological innovation have to come from within the sector? Claire Shaw hears from the current wave of edutech players with their roots firmly in higher education
Can OpenCourseWare widen Europe’s science and technology skills-base?
Technology is reshaping how we work and socialise, but too few European students are opting to study it, says Anka Mulder