Teaching & Learning

At an institution that prides itself on its use of technology, one professor goes in the opposite direction -- banning all electronic devices in his classes.

The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium served the state's online initiatives for two decades. Now the challenge -- or opportunity -- for the institutions is to continue that work as the consortium closes.

The mostly online Rio Salado College pushes back on a critique of its graduation rates, while nonprofit colleges may be feeling more heat about their results amid the collapse of for-profits.

A professor and an undergraduate describe the positive and negative ways that students use technology to keep their heads above water academically.

By M.O. Thirunarayanan and Taylor Campbell

A high-profile affordable textbook program wraps up in Arizona having doubled its original goal, and other institutions share similar successes.

Connecticut's budget shortages and enrollment challenges claim a distance-learning organization as its victim.