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 ...

Even in schools offering face-to-face instruction this fall, one “class” of students likely won’t be the coherent unit that it was in past years. Within one 5th grade class, for example, students may ...

In Margaret Boyle's new class, students are teaching world languages to elementary school children in Brunswick. At the same time, they are conveying another important lesson. The Bowdoin students are ...

A study published by Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, and The Washington Post’s interpretation of it, shows the dangers of trying to analyze change, in this case, the transition from ...

In February 2020, if anyone had asked me to teach a class online, I would have flatly refused. Nope. Never. No way, San José! Plato and Socrates taught in person, and so did I. Why? Because the best ...

When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m. class via Zoom, she has to remember that it isn’t 11 a.m. for all of her students. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt ...

“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 — ...

It can work well in some circumstances, but so far does not seem like an adequate substitute for conventional classroom instruction for large classes. Like most academics, I have had to teach and ...

Creativity can be incredibly lucrative — if you know how to leverage it. Unfortunately, many people with creative talents find themselves stuck in a “starving artist” mentality, convinced that their ...