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The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus column posted its top ten stories with readers from 2014. I don't one trend dominating their technology on campus world, as there are ones on pedagogy, publishing, interacting with parents (surprising in that we associate that more with K-12 teaching), libraries, online security and the tools and trends. Wired Campus points out that there articles often crossover into the mainstream press coverage of technology because technology itself is so mainstream. Most major news outlets in print, on TV or on the Net have technology reporters. Based on reader clicks, these were the 10 top articles:

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 Are Courses Outdated?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