Colleges should take the opportunity presented by the pandemic to reformat aging lecture halls into next-generation active learning environments, making them more engaging, providing better retention of subject matter and adding greater flexibility for future changes in technology.
The University of New Haven required all students to get coronavirus tests before returning to campus. Complicating these efforts was Connecticut's travel restrictions for people traveling from states with high rates of transmission.
Ensuring students are tested for COVID before returning is one of the big challenges facing University of New Haven leaders reopening for the fall semester.
Why haven’t universities, especially during a world crisis, better solved the challenge of effectively using video-based online learning to educate? Here are five reasons higher education should be welcoming the increased adoption of video and online learning.
Forging long-lasting connections, identifying critical needs and providing an assist to veterans in finding resources on campus is essential to positive outcomes.
Enrolling more Black students full-time and supporting them in persisting and graduating anchor the Ventura County Community College District's renewed commitment to diversity and inclusion.
Before the pandemic hit, students spent more on technology than what their classes required and even more waited to purchase these course materials to see if they were necessary, according to a new study.
Higher ed administrators must ensure students can connect and collaborate with faculty, staff and their peers in more ways—particularly in the online and hybrid learning environments that may be implemented this fall, say UB guest columnists Carolina and Claudia Recchi.
UB guest columnists John Katzman and Stephen M. Kosslyn address six challenges higher ed faces in preparing for the fall. Ideally, they say, campuses will create a single ecosystem that allows faculty, staff and students to move between physical and virtual environments.
Concerns over a second wave of coronavirus later this year will keep courses at one of the nation's largest higher educations systems, The California State University, mostly online in fall 2020.
