At least once a semester, some student sends me an e-mail that goes something like this: "Professor K., This was my first online class. I had no idea what to expect! But, you made it totally ...

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 ...

In the video "The Electric Pickup Truck War Is Here," Bloomberg describes the dilemma that large automakers face. Pickup trucks are the products that keep Ford, GM and, to a lesser extent, Fiat ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ted Ladd teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Harvard and Hult. As students head back to campus, teachers face an ...

Two months ago, nobody would have predicted that education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate programs, would either shut down or move to online courses. Most teachers don’t have prior ...

Sand Pine Elementary School student Luke O’Brien works on a math review in Stephanie Sheridan’s fourth-grade class Wednesday. Sheridan uses a “flipped classroom” model that presents material and ...

Canvas learning management system went down for over 12 hours Monday due to Amazon Web Services outage, disrupting students ...

Both attendance requirements and “flipped classrooms” are bandages on the festering problems of lecture-skipping and a lack of engagement.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As sophomore Nathan Beckman sat outside Room 224 of the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, he marked time by watching videos on his phone before Biology 230 dismissed and his ...