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 ...

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When I first began teaching online courses, I did so with a fair amount of uncertainty and trepidation. Could I replicate in a digital environment what I believed was essential for an in-person course ...

Looking for an easy way to become a better online instructor? At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem ...

An academic praised for developing and sharing new approaches to online teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic has been named the ‘2021 Best New Lecturer’ by the Economics Network. Dr Swati Virmani, ...

Vanderbilt University has announced a new Instructional Design Support Center focused on improving online teaching and course quality. The institution is working with instructional design firm iDesign ...

Students, parents, and teachers who are anxious or merely curious about the coming online assessments matched to the Common Core State Standards will now have the opportunity to go through a test run ...

At their best, synchronous online courses are shared experiences, and students are fully present to boost each other's learning. But in the virtual world it takes more than webcams to get us there.

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Delivering courses in cyberclassrooms has gained broad acceptance among top college leaders, but the general public is far less convinced of online education’s quality, according to new survey data ...