The coming coding revolution
I think we’re now going through a phase a lot like the beginning of the Renaissance, which is why I think we need to teach all students to…
Classroom Innovation
These students found new opportunity in workforce training
While community colleges and vocational training offer popular alternative paths, a five-year-old program in a small city on the north shore of Boston is providing recent high school…
AI is revolutionizing education
AI will be to education in the 21st century what steam power was to international trade and the projection of sovereign power in the 19th century.
Lessons learned from bringing physics instruction online at Oregon State
Our university’s ECampus program helps students--both those on and off campus--engage in evidence-based practices and utilize a complete host of Open Education Resources.
How physics instruction moved online at Oregon State University
Two years before the pandemic hit, Oregon State University’s Physics Department, with support from its highly successful Ecampus program, set out to create its first online introductory physics…
COVID is changing the future of work and e-learning
COVID-19 has been a catalyst in an office culture shift that’s been gaining steam since the onset of the cloud. Since the coronavirus hit full force in the…
4 recommendations to improve adult learners’ experiences
A new study captures the voices of adult learners and highlights ways higher education institutions can help them navigate unique challenges and provide needed support now and in…
Higher ed ramps up to fill gaps in 3D printing industry
As additive manufacturing—3D printing—expands through a growing number of industries and applications, studies indicate that a skills shortage has slowed its wider adoption.
5 ways a flexible academic structure increases equity
The structures in place at most universities, designed around constructs of the distant past, are at best constraining for this population and at worst create an inequity of…
How one instructor made remote chemistry instruction engaging
Like so many institutions, Berkeley was compelled to transition to 100 percent remote learning. On very short notice, we faced the prospect of delivering the same high level…