Distance Learning

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 […]

Writing in The Guardian, Sally Weale explains the wide gap in the distance learning experiences of rich and poor children in the UK as revealed by a study conducted by the Sutton Trust.. The COVID19 […]

There has been talk about unbundling the university for more than a decade, and a new research brief from CB Insights provide a comprehensive look at the wide variety of service providers interested in taking […]

With many moving their face-to-face classes online it is a great time to consider ways to improve conditions for teaching from home and the impact of such conditions on students working at a distance. A […]

Writing in Entrepreneur, Adrian Shepherd calls attention to Google’s recent move to enter the world of higher education by offering six month courses in areas in high demand from employers. In addition to targeting areas […]

With the transition to online classes due to the pandemic, there has been widespread adoption of Zoom and other platforms for synchronous video conferencing. Along with this has come the expectation that everyone participating in […]

Back at the turn of the century during an earlier period of interest in delivering courses online, some universities tried to claim ownership of materials developed by faculty for their teaching. A number of IP […]