Teaching & Learning

Ed-tech start-up Engageli has raised $14.5 million to build a videoconferencing platform. Unlike Zoom, the platform has been purposefully designed with college and university faculty members and students in mind.

Survey finds significant increases in professors' confidence in virtual learning and their sense of support from their colleges -- but continuing concerns about equity for underrepresented students.

Frustrated with Zoom's instructional limitations, developers and entrepreneurs take matters into their own hands.

Videoconferencing provider refuses to stream a university event featuring a member of a terrorist organization. Academic freedom hawks see virtual teaching platforms as a new front in the fight for faculty rights.

Strategic Education Inc. and Noodle Partners launch new platform connecting employees to employer-subsidized college degrees.

Dissatisfied with the way local schools are responding to the pandemic, families increasingly turn to online K-12 options to educate their children -- including schools run by universities.

Working adults increasingly are interested in pursuing postsecondary education, but they are also less confident about the value of college.

Experts argue that asynchronous learning is a valuable tool, especially now. But it needs to be done in a thoughtful way to help students succeed.