Teaching & Learning

Amid surge in distance education, states must play a stronger role in quality assurance, write Lori Williams and Rob Anderson.

Colleges are offering free online summer courses in an effort to keep students engaged and on track to graduate. Will it work?

To the extent colleges offer virtual learning this fall, should professors take their students into virtual worlds? That and other ideas and questions from readers.

Professors and students alike viewed their remote learning experience most favorably this spring when their courses incorporated more "best practices." That's the path to making the inevitable virtual education better this fall.

Rutgers, Harvard, Princeton and Georgetown announce mostly online fall terms while ICE says international students cannot study fully online and remain in U.S. Georgia system reverses course on masks.

Presidents give their colleges and universities mixed grades on the remote learning they offered last spring. How is that influencing their decisions about reopening campuses this fall?

Park University is encouraging students from other institutions to transfer and study online for a year at a discounted tuition rate. Are special offers like this a good idea?

As more colleges announce their instructional plans, two simulations suggest some of the likely challenges to a physical return. Others see opportunity for experimentation around teaching and learning.