“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 growing number of colleges and universities are announcing the cancellation of face-to-face teaching for what remains of the academic year, and continuing instead through online teaching. Given the ...

The honeymoon is over. My romance with distance teaching is losing its spark. Gone are the days when I looked forward to each new online encounter with students, when preparing and posting a basic ...

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 ...

Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic. In the enforced solitude of stay-at-home orders to fight the coronavirus ...

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 ...

The internet has had a huge impact on all sectors of the economy. Education, for example, continues to witness revolutionary approaches to teaching and learning in schools around the world. The use of ...

If you’re dreaming of ditching the 9-to-5, packing your laptop, and earning money from anywhere, you’ve probably come across the idea of teaching English online. It sounds simple: talk to students, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic may have thrust online education and distance learning into the spotlight in 2020, but it's not new. In fact, 1 in 5 public schools already offered courses entirely online during ...

What if you gave a Zoom class and nobody came? That was my nightmare come true when I tried to teach my first online class in March. Many professors had taught online for years, by choice. Not me. I ...

***The Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning program will not be accepting new students for the Academic Year 2025-2026. More information to follow.*** The Online Teaching and Learning ...