Teaching & Learning

Companies spend millions of dollars so colleges can offer their programs online. 2U says data can tell the company if the investment will be worth it.

Creating a new competency-based degree program isn't easy, writes Cathy Sandeen, who shares lessons she learned from helping to develop the UW Flexible Option.

Yoram and Edith Neumann, who have been involved with online education for decades, share some lessons about what factors most help students learn.

Higher education groups say Education Department's proposed rules on teacher preparation program discriminate against distance education providers.

Penn State U's World Campus plans further changes to its faculty development efforts after an online teaching certificate program became a surprise hit among graduate students.

Online master's program in computer science -- a much-watched attempt to apply the MOOC model to for-credit programs -- may not be the big revenue generator the institute projected it would be, but administrators deem it a success and plan to expand it.

Report on the future of online education stresses central role of faculty members and instructional designers.