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One of the largest educational publishers in the world is offering cash prizes to the winners of a crowdsourced learning product innovation competition.

The college-is-a-bubble meme just keeps growing . Student-loan debt surpassed credit-card debt for the first time in history last year

Austin Peay State University is testing out a Netflix-like recommendation system for courses. Tristan Denley, the prof behind the tech, wonders: "If eHarmony works well, why not this?" As per credit costs for college courses spike , the impact of poor advice from a college counselor can mean a disturbing amount of misplaced time and money. So Austin Peay State University mathematics professor Tristan Denley designed a course-recommendation system for students to suppliment their regular college counselor visits

It's the fashion these days to blame teachers for everything that is wrong with American education. But teachers are still the people in our schools every day, and they know what our schools are lacking. That's the premise of DonorsChoose.org , a website where teachers can ask for specific items for their classrooms, and users can give them money to buy those items.

Intel's investing in the student tablet company, and will be taking over hardware operations. What's next?

"We got rid of all the bells and whistles." Jenna Goebig, a graduate student in business and architecture at the University of Illinois, visited India this winter as part of the Subsistence Marketplaces class. My team is developing a disaster relief shelter

University of Illinois Taught by: Madhu Viswanathan and John Clarke Both the socially conscious and the profit-minded see opportunity in a global market of up to four billion people living in poverty. Yet in most entrepreneurship classes, financially comfortable students develop products for customers who look a lot like themselves.

Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and updated all day. 'Nano-bricks' lock in food flavor longer : A new transparent packaging technology, made from the same particles used to construct clay bricks, could keep food fresh longer, maybe for years.

An English prof gains a cult following on campus through "Jeffbook," his 3,221-entry (and counting) experiment in literary criticism, conducted exclusively on Facebook. His StairMaster mastery and Red Bull-slamming ability may also have helped

Blogging for your business is important, but doing it wrong can cost you customers and your reputation. As more and more small businesses enter the world of content development, the scrutiny continues to increase. Consumers can be retained or lost simply from your blogging efforts, so its imperative this public-facing activity is done correctly.

Two Stanford researchers have tested a confidence-boosting technique that dramatically increases the performance of minorities in college. Two Stanford researchers have found a free, universally accessible method of shrinking the college minority grade gap

Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis has triggered radiation hysteria all over the world--thyroid-protecting potassium iodine pills are flying off the shelves in the U.S, Geiger counters are selling out in Paris, and all of a sudden, everyone seems to care how close they are to a nuclear plant. Enter RDTN , a crowdsourced radiation site that aims to keep users up to date on exactly how high radiation levels are in Japan and on the West Coast of the U.S.

Social learning platform Xplana has been analyzing the digital textbook market, and has concluded that in the U.S. the education publishing market has is reaching a tipping point: Within seven years, digital textbooks will dominate over print. Xplana's studies suggest that over the next five years, sales of textbooks to students in the U.S

Yep, the next generation of mechanical heroes comes in all shapes and sizes. Robots of mostly academic interest may suddenly be getting a real-world baptism by fire, reports the Chronicle for Higher Education.

Google's tools don't easily translate into synthesized speech or Braille. Now the National Federation of the Blind has issued a federal complaint with the Justice Department, alleging that university use of Google Apps for Education amounts to discrimination.