The theme of the 2014 Physics Education Research (PER) Conference was "Outpacing New Technologies with Novel Pedagogies: The Role of PER in the Transforming Landscape of Higher Education."

Students' unprecedented access to information on-line is dramatically and irreversibly transforming higher education.  This transformation provides fantastic opportunities to improve education, but at the same time we are presented with the equally fantastic risk of losing the core elements that make higher education so valuable. Whether it has been on-line homework, electronic voting systems, or screen-casted lectures, the physics community has been on the bleeding edge of new educational technology.

The central goal of PERC 2014 was to engage in a scholarly dialog around these new environments including the opportunities they afford, the challenges they present, and the research enterprise necessary to address these. The opportunities for access and equity in MOOC, on-line, hybrid, and flipped classrooms, as well as the challenges these new educational models present for engagement, assessment, and community development are all important aspects to consider. Conference participants will gain deeper insight into these technologically-driven environments by discussing the magnitude and rapidity of these changes, developing an understanding of the national dialog around on-line education, and discussing how physics education research can guide the development of new pedagogies for and assessments of these environments.

The 2014 PERC Proceedings will become available between April 27-April 30, 2015.