Tech & Innovation

Ph.D. students defending their dissertations must do so remotely right now. Could videoconference defenses become the new normal?

Online Zoom classes were disrupted by individuals spewing racist, misogynistic or vulgar content. Experts say professors using Zoom should familiarize themselves with the program's settings.

They now face the challenge of teaching via modes and methods that they have largely spurned, Douglas A. Hicks writes.

Experts weigh in on how the sudden, forced adoption of technology-delivered instruction will affect the well-being of professors and students alike.

Colleges are scrambling to move courses online. But with those changes come concerns over privacy and surveillance.

As the coronavirus forces many courses onto videoconferencing platforms, instructors and institutions can take small but important steps to ensure effective use and communication, Jody Greene writes.

Six in 10 online learning administrators say their campuses require professors to train before teaching online -- but 70 percent say students aren't formally prepared to study virtually.

While many colleges and universities have closed their libraries, others say they can't operate without keeping them open.