Distance Learning

Writing in Educause Review, Perry Samson tells an interesting, and perhaps common, story of how students negotiate the question of face-to-face vs online class formats. Although many express a preference for face-to-face classes, in practice […]

Stanford University has announced a new program in partnership with the National Education Equity Lab to offer Stanford online courses to underserved students in high schools across the U.S. The pilot effort involves a computer […]

With colleges moving back to campus based learning as the danger of the global pandemic decreases, some instructors who have invested time and thought into reimagining their teaching for online learning are seeking to capture […]

Writing in Medium, Ryan Fan makes the case against hybrid teaching, or at least that variety of hybrid that combines students who are physically present in the classroom with students who are remote. He explains […]

Writing in the LA Times, Colleen Shalby describes how students in the California State University system have found advantages in the online courses that were offered to them as a result of the pandemic. The […]

Sometimes hybrids are awkward, ineffective, and out of place. At other times they combine the best of quite different breeds into something with unique capacity and impact. As educational institutions attempt to bridge the physical […]

Earlier I highlighted the innovative work of Sean Willems shared in a paper in which he described building his home teaching studio. Now Sean and his colleagues Andrew Lo and Brian Stevens have shared an […]

Writing in The Guardian, John Naughton observes that the COVID19 pandemic may well accelerate the demise of the university as we know it, complete with its dominant mode of teaching and learning, the lecture. This […]

BoingBoing is featuring a twitter thread in which a student discovers that the professor in the online course he has been taking died in 2019. Assuming the report is accurate in claiming that the university […]