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The Shift to Remote and What's Ahead for Fall: Your Turn

Readers share "feasible" ideas for a fall instructional model with students on campus but physically distancing. And the particular challenges this spring for instructors and students at institutions that use the quarter system rather than semesters.
Opinion

More Than a Lifeline

Technology can no longer be seen as a utility working in the background, writes John O’Brien. It’s a strategic asset that’s vital to every institution’s success.

An Argument for ‘Remote’ Rather Than ‘Online’ Instruction

Might high-touch, residential colleges be better off tweaking the synchronous instruction they've done this spring rather than making a bigger shift if campuses are still closed to students in the fall? One campus official makes that case.

Zoom Boom

Synchronous instruction is trending, but experts say a more intentional mix of live and asynchronous classwork is necessary for future remote terms.
Opinion

COVID-19 and the Chance to Break Out of Our Academic Bubbles

Now, more than ever, we must use digital technology to break down the boundaries, borders and barriers that prevent us from collectively addressing our greatest global challenges, argues Annelise Riles.

The Big ‘If’

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

How Teaching Changed in the (Forced) Shift to Remote Learning

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.

Learning During the Pandemic

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?