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Mollie Woodworth, a longtime moderator on College Confidential (a college-admissions website with discussion forums that have become a culture of their own) , starts checking the site early in the morning while getting ready for work. “Coming from a small public high school, I had no direct line to admissions offices, no clue about the process. Now I feel like I can answer questions for people like me, who are kind of clueless.”  (Photo by M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle) Read the full story here.

Mollie Woodworth, a longtime moderator on College Confidential (a college-admissions website with discussion forums that have become a culture of their own) , starts checking the site early in the morning while getting ready for work. “Coming from a small public high school, I had no direct line to admissions offices, no clue about the process. Now I feel like I can answer questions for people like me, who are kind of clueless.”  (Photo by M. Scott Brauer for The Chronicle)

Read the full story here.

The Idea Makers: Ten Tech Innovators - 2013 What are the biggest ideas in education technology this year, and who’s driving them? For the second year in a row, The Chronicle has identified a group of key innovators who are rebooting the academy, and we’ve profiled 10 of them.  Explore the package here.

The Idea Makers: Ten Tech Innovators - 2013

What are the biggest ideas in education technology this year, and who’s driving them? For the second year in a row, The Chronicle has identified a group of key innovators who are rebooting the academy, and we’ve profiled 10 of them.  Explore the package here.

Somber reflections on the Boston Marathon bombing from the two most recent Big Picture slideshows.

The MOOC Universe: Explore connections among the major players. Check out more here.

The MOOC Universe: Explore connections among the major players.

Check out more here.

Video by Eric Kruszewski documenting Bob Curran’s first weeks back in school at the Community College of Baltimore County. Mr. Curran, along with thousands of other steelworkers, lost his job when Bethlehem Steel closed in 2012. 

Photographer Eric Kruszewski spent time this spring documenting Bob Curran, a former steelworker at the now defunct Sparrow’s Point complex outside of Baltimore, Maryland. Like many other workers who were laid off when the plant closed, Mr. Curran signed up for a retraining program at the Community College of Baltimore County…39 years after he finished high school.  Chronicle reporter, Katie Mangan, follows Mr. Curran’s story here.

 

Check out this wonderful illustration by Steve Brodner that accompanied a Chronicle package on the value of a college degree (here). What to Go to College For: How do you measure success in higher education? The illustrator, Steve Brodner, a frequent contributor to The Chronicle, shows that the return on investment depends on how you define your terms. For many students, the traditional liberal-arts program (on the left) puts them on a path that may lead to satisfactions other than financial ones. For many others, career training (on the right) is the point of a college education.

Check out this wonderful illustration by Steve Brodner that accompanied a Chronicle package on the value of a college degree (here).

What to Go to College For:

How do you measure success in higher education? The illustrator, Steve Brodner, a frequent contributor to The Chronicle, shows that the return on investment depends on how you define your terms. For many students, the traditional liberal-arts program (on the left) puts them on a path that may lead to satisfactions other than financial ones. For many others, career training (on the right) is the point of a college education.

Vistors brush up on toothbrush design at an exhibition in Taipei by Wu Kwang-tyng, a professor in the architecture department of Tamkang U. (Wu Ching-teng, Xinhua, Landov) See the rest from Big Picture here.

Vistors brush up on toothbrush design at an exhibition in Taipei by Wu Kwang-tyng, a professor in the architecture department of Tamkang U. (Wu Ching-teng, Xinhua, Landov)

See the rest from Big Picture here.