You don’t have to chase every new online course or spend hours learning digital tools to start freelancing or consulting. You ...

“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 — ...

Virtual learning offers convenience and accessibility, but cannot provide the social bonds and support of a college campus.

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 ...

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the rapid digitization of higher education, online courses and course materials remain prevalent. A new survey from Bay View Analytics found that while ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Ricardo Alcaraz is taking three of his five courses online this semester at Santa Ana College: an anthropology class, business calculus and business law. It’s a course schedule that reflects a new ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic blasted online education years into the future, and exposed its many challenges. At a time when educators and parents alike are still grappling with school disruptions and ...

Students are demanding more online courses than ever, a new survey of colleges’ chief learning officer finds, but this is accompanied by tensions over faculty autonomy and budget challenges. According ...

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 ...