Online teaching and learning is a form of distance education. While distance education has been offered since the early 1700s, the first online courses were offered in the late 1960s. Original ...

“Thank you so much for taking the time to treat me like a person,” wrote Stephanie in an email to me. A student in one of my online courses, she had fallen behind and couldn’t see a way forward — ...

A new report from California Competes unpacks the hesitancy around online learning in higher education and how institutions can evolve programs to better support students. A new report from California ...

How Do You Adjust/Modify Activities for the Online Learning Environment? As mentioned in the course design resources for online teaching, the Community of Inquiry (COI) framework (depicted below), is ...

Accredited online teaching degrees are increasingly offering flexible, career-focused pathways for aspiring and current educators. Programs from institutions like WGU, PennWest, and ASU combine ...

With schools in East Falmouth, Mass., closed for a few days thanks to a late February blizzard, Natalia Berrios tutored students in reading across six different states and taught English as a second ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

It’s been five years since colleges moved their teaching and learning online in response to the COVID pandemic, and Inside Higher Ed’s 2025 Survey of Campus Chief Technology/Information Officers, ...

Online learning as a form of delivering lessons, was not as popular as when academic institutions were closed down due to ...

For years, “flexible learning” has become one of the most commonly used phrases in education. Yet in an increasingly crowded ...

Colleges must turn to adult learners seeking degree completion, career transitions and short-cycle credentials aligned with ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...