Erin Knight now leads the Open Badges Project that lets anyone issue an online stamp certifying that a student has mastered a skill or concept.

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 participate in their courses free online. Since the Tech Therapy team conducted the interview last year, the model has caught on with many well-known universities.

College leaders just keep demanding more out of their technology, and that’s created challenges for presidents and CIO’s. How are they coping?

Charles Severance helped start Sakai, an open-source alternative to Blackboard’s course-management software. In a surprising move, Blackboard hired him

A number of experiments are using new kinds of data – such as how many times a student has clicked on an e-textbook or logged in to a class Web page – to measure and guide learning in new ways. That could improve the student experience, but it could also end up dumbing down college, argues Gardner…

Purdue University is working with professors to build quick-hit software programs to help meet particular needs of, say, a forensics professor or an instructor teaching sign language. The Tech Therapy team talked with Kyle D. Bowen, Purdue’s director of informatics, who argues that colleges should build their own educational software rather than relying on companies to produce it.

Jose A. Bowen, a dean at Southern Methodist University, discusses his new book—which argues that professors should “teach naked” by eschewing technology.

Brian Mustanski, an associate professor at Northwestern University, explains why administrators can’t “bury their heads in the sand” when it comes to students’ changing modes of courtship.

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

The Tech Therapy team speaks with Derek Bruff, of Vanderbilt University, about the difficulty in moving such technology beyond the early-adopter stage.