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Coronavirus News Roundup for May 28
Everything you need to know for Thursday about higher ed and the coronavirus in one easy-to-read package (with some distractions to help your sanity).
Ramping Up for Remote Instruction
Anticipating continued remote instruction this fall, nonprofits, ed-tech companies and institutions race to provide faculty with the resources and training they need to teach well online.
Can Active Learning Co-Exist With Physically Distanced Classrooms?
Advocates for active learning worry that their favored approach will be hard to pull off in physically distanced classrooms -- and that instructors will revert to the straightforward lecture.
Opinion
The Physically Distanced Classroom: A Day in the Life
As some campuses plan for students’ physical return this fall, Norman Clark imagines how a student might navigate a day in class. It isn't pretty.
How College Students Viewed This Spring's Remote Learning
A professor's in-depth survey of students before and after courses went virtual offers insights into how colleges can improve. The key elements: a thoughtful mix of flexibility and structure.
The Switch Semester
Several universities have said they will open for in-person instruction this fall but will end on-campus instruction by Thanksgiving. Can that plan work?
Complicated Picture for the Humanities
By some measures, the humanities are in decline. By others, their death has been overstated. A new report offers some data from before the pandemic.
Opinion
A Time to Reflect on What College Should Be
The long-term survival of colleges and universities will hinge on their ability to deliver what matters most to students, employers and society, write Jamie Merisotis and Carrie Besnette Hauser.