Teaching & Learning

Police officers in the making at George Washington University can tap into a virtual crime scene as the foundation for learning across multiple courses.

Calls to create a discipline around the term risk reinforcing existing problems with how it is used -- and misused -- in higher education, Rolin Moe writes.

At an institution that prides itself on its use of technology, one professor goes in the opposite direction -- banning all electronic devices in his classes.

The mostly online Rio Salado College pushes back on a critique of its graduation rates, while nonprofit colleges may be feeling more heat about their results amid the collapse of for-profits.

The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium served the state's online initiatives for two decades. Now the challenge -- or opportunity -- for the institutions is to continue that work as the consortium closes.

A high-profile affordable textbook program wraps up in Arizona having doubled its original goal, and other institutions share similar successes.

A professor and an undergraduate describe the positive and negative ways that students use technology to keep their heads above water academically.