The 10 Most-Popular Wired Campus Articles of 2014

Technology continues to change colleges, and our coverage of digitally driven change won the most attention from readers over the past year.

We crunched the numbers to find the most popular coverage of 2014. The list—which includes predictions of big changes in classroom teaching, in academic publishing, in communicating with parents, and in the mission of libraries—highlights the range of aspects of campus life affected by technology. And it reminds us how mainstream technology coverage is these days.

Here are the 10 top articles, as voted by your clicks:

1. Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering ‘Modules’ Instead
2. Taking Notes by Hand Benefits Recall, Researchers Find
3. Why One Professor Thinks Academics Should Write ‘BuzzFeed-Style Scholarship’
4. 6 Technologies Will Change Colleges in Coming Years, Experts Say
5. 5 Things Researchers Have Discovered About MOOCs
6. The ‘Heartbleed’ Bug and How Internet Users Can Protect Themselves
7. This Guy Drew a Cat. You Won’t Believe What Happened 4 Centuries Later.
8. Video: Tech Tools Students Say They Can’t Live Without
9. How Streaming Media Could Threaten the Mission of Libraries
10. U. of Tennessee at Martin Encourages Helicopter Parents to Hover