On Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 a.m., an ECON 103: Macroeconomic Principles lecture is held in Foellinger Auditorium, a lecture hall that can seat over 1,300 people. Despite the large seating capacity, ...

This semester, I’m teaching a fairly large (130 at final count) online course in digital media. I wrote last month about some of the strategies I’ve used to prepare the course, including thinking ...

This fall, students enrolled in CS50, Harvard’s behemoth introductory Computer Science course, will only be asked to attend two lectures in person. The new policy, one of a host of changes announced ...

The events of recent years have shown that online course materials are capable of competing with the traditional method of acquiring knowledge. Studying the best online courses with the best teachers ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook As part of a yearlong series, a research group within the School of Information hosted a panel ...

When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...

Michelle Bitten isn’t a morning person, which made it hard for her to get to her 8 a.m. biology class at UC Berkeley three times a week. And when she did attend, she felt that the instructor tended to ...

If you are in college, I don’t mean to alarm you—but you are probably being experimented on. Stop checking for both of your kidneys; it’s not that kind of experiment. But chances are, one or more of ...

Younger students taking distance learning courses, often part-time to enable them to attain employment and earn money as they study, are on the increase according to ...

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 ...