Teaching

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.

Teaching Zoom classes depletes our energy, argues Susan D. Blum, because videoconferencing is nearly a replication of face-to-face interaction but not quite.

By Susan D. Blum

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?

We will all be returning to a different reality in our classrooms, writes Ted Gup, and the challenge will be to identify that which is fundamental and defining.

By Ted Gup

Teaching lab sciences and the fine arts during COVID-19.

John D. Loike and Marian Stoltz-Loike have identified five objectives for online labs that are critical to any science laboratory experience and lend themselves well to online teaching.

By John D. Loike and Marian Stoltz-Loike

James Miller asks, as professors move to virtual instruction, how do they hold on to the open-ended creativity of discussion more common in the physical classroom?

By James Miller