College in the age of COVID
There's no debating the immense disruption COVID-19 brought to campuses across the globe. And now, while students are on summer break, higher-ed leaders are scrambling to produce reopening…
Online Learning
5 top priorities for online students
Many colleges and universities are considering hybrid learning models as they try to plan for fall and long-term learning strategies that can adapt to student and faculty needs,…
Why effective online instruction demands teamwork
With the unexpected onset of a global health pandemic and a hurried transition to online teaching, we are caught in the crossfires of arguments for and against online…
Blended learning will reshape the future of learning
Online teaching has long been an option for higher education faculty, but most have rejected online education and have chosen the traditional mode of teaching face-to-face in physical…
Our nationwide crash course in online learning is underway
In higher education, online learning has suddenly become the focus of administrators, teachers, students, and even many parents around the world. While teaching a course online has long…
This new playbook helps faculty with best practices in online learning
A new playbook takes aim at the nation's sudden shift to online learning and attempts to help faculty keep student success at the core of their online instructional…
Online proctoring: Trust, transparency, and fairness
COVID-19 did not initiate the movement to online learning – that’s been happening for decades. But it sure has accelerated it, with academic departments scrambling to procure delivery…
Why online learning is here to stay
Online, distance learning as a modality of teaching and learning has been thrust upon education and can no longer be considered an emerging reality. It is here. The…
COVID-19 is disrupting non-traditional online students, too
COVID-19’s impact on traditional learners was widely covered as students abruptly left campus to keep their communities healthy and continue learning at a distance. But the influence on…
Online teaching: Extraordinary times mean taking extraordinary measures
For a few years now, the specter of online teaching had been encroaching into my classroom as the inevitable fate of higher education in the United States. Slowly…