There were 1.3 million fewer students enrolled in U.S. public schools in fall 2021 than there were before the pandemic began–a drop of nearly 3 percent. Given that educational funding is tied to ...

Research shows that student performance in gateway courses can predict retention, the likelihood of graduation and all-around student success. Historically, minority students have been underserved in ...

Chief online learning officers see a “continued increase” in students’ preferences for online learning programs, leading higher-ed institutions to look for new strategies to address this demand, ...

Post-secondary students who take online “distance learning” classes outperform their peers who work face-to-face with teachers in a physical classroom, according to a recent study published in the ...

While online learning offers advantages such as flexibility and accessibility, its pitfalls lie in technological, motivational and social challenges. The format still offers an unparalleled level of ...

In the 2022-23 academic year, colleges largely restored their in-person courses after a lengthy pandemic-era disruption. Students, however, didn’t want online- and hybrid-learning options to disappear ...

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller ...

According to a recent Educause survey, the number of students expressing preferences for courses that are mostly or completely online has increased 220% since the onset of the pandemic, from 9% in ...

Students are overwhelmingly in favor of continuing with hybrid learning, according to a global survey. For many students, the Covid-19 pandemic was their first sustained experience of online learning, ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, students, faculty and administrators faced challenges amid the urgent pivot to emergency remote instruction. The pandemic and resulting quarantines ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...