Burdened by the combination of synchronous class sessions and pre-recorded lectures, students in STEM classes said they are spending more time "in class" than in a typical in-person semester.

In “Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching,” my friend Bob Ubell explores how pandemic-era remote instruction may persist in a post-COVID academic world. (Bob interviewed me for and ...

Leah Zitter is a technical writer who covers high tech. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology research and a master’s in philosophy and advanced logic. Eleven years ago, researchers warned in the journal ...

Each class and each instructor is going to be a little different and have different needs. In general, to promote student learning, we have to think about providing them with information, giving them ...

Five years ago, the claim that an online course can be just as effective and engaging as its equivalent in-person course may have raised eyebrows and possibly even ignited controversy. Since then, the ...

Multimodal course design is an instructional approach that integrates multiple delivery methods—such as in-person, synchronous online, and/or asynchronous components—within a single course structure.

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make ...

Online education did not start in 2020, but for instructors faced with the prospect of adapting well-established in-person course offerings that summer, virtual classrooms required a fresh approach to ...

I read with interest Anna Broadbent’s essay on the benefits and pitfalls of class participation grades. From my perch as a provost, former dean and former department chair, I find that the grade for ...