Teaching & Learning

Everyone's asking what happens in the fall. Nothing is firm, but some colleges are telegraphing their intentions.

New survey documents how professors view this spring's mass move to virtual courses. Key findings: most used new teaching methods, half lowered their expectations for the volume of student work -- and a third for its quality.

The inequitable ways the move to remote learning has affected different groups of students; are recession-affected students flocking to online courses? What's happening with the fall semester?

When humanity is under threat, humans crave the humanities, write Emily Levine and Matthew Rascoff, and that ethos should guide higher education as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.

Rather than pursue an educational approach that will most likely fail, we should let students enroll in the fall with no tuition or living expenses charged, argues Amihai Glazer.

Colleges announce shifts to their summer sessions and consider tuition discounts or fee waivers in some cases.

Christopher R. Marsicano shares lessons learned from the first weeks of Zoom teaching.