The COVID-19 pandemic may have thrust online education and distance learning into the spotlight in 2020, but it's not new. In fact, 1 in 5 public schools already offered courses entirely online during ...

While many professors have grown more accustomed to online instruction since COVID-19 first necessitated it in 2020, some are still learning how to teach online courses effectively. Now Kansas State ...

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming ...

While teaching critical thinking in an online environment is a new challenge for many educators who have never worked outside a physical classroom, the guiding principles are much the same: ...

“Thank you so much for taking the time to treat me like a person,” wrote Stephanie in an email to me. A student in one of my online courses, she had fallen behind and couldn’t see a way forward — ...

Best Practices in Online Instruction is a four-week, asynchronous online course that introduces instructors to the best practices in online instruction. Successful completion of this course awards ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

The definitions of online and hybrid learning are continually evolving, as evidenced by Singh and Thurman (2019) who identified 46 different definitions for online learning in peer-reviewed journals ...

Online teaching and learning is a form of distance education. While distance education has been offered since the early 1700s, the first online courses were offered in the late 1960s. Original ...

If you’re a native English speaker, you can teach English online to people in other parts of the world. In many cases, all you need to secure these jobs is a good internet connection and the language ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Leading in the AI Era,” available in the Chronicle Store.