Mary Nestor, Millie Tullis and James Butler write that a recent opinion essay presented a distorted view of the possibilities of asynchronous course design. Many institutions now offer effective ...

Millions of students take online courses annually, and online learning remains one of the largest and most steadily growing enrollment segments. What’s changing in 2026 is how online courses are ...

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 typically employs two primary modes of delivery: synchronous and asynchronous strategies. Synchronous approaches involve live interaction between instructors and learners, often via ...

Unlike their face-to-face counterparts on campus, online courses are predominantly asynchronous where the students (and faculty) each determine when they will engage and participate in their online ...

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh. A ...

With schools shut down across America, K-12 teachers faced with a question many likely thought they’d never have to ask: When and how often during the school day do my students need to see me?

The question, “Should online learning should replace classroom learning?” is a complex and contentious issue. While online education offers flexibility and accessibility, traditional classroom ...

Given the demands on students’ time and the pressure to increase credit accumulation, online education will certainly play a growing role in undergraduate as well as graduate and professional ...

One of the many changes COVID-19 brought those in education was an almost immediate switch to online learning. Overnight, institutions scrambled to keep education moving, while bridging the physical ...

Christin Perry is a freelance writer with a passion for all topics related to health and family. She has been working as a writer for seven years now, and her work has appeared in Parents, The Bump, ...