Across Africa, distance education has become one of the most powerful forces for expanding access to higher learning. Open ...

Editor’s Note: For more recent information on distance learning, please read our 2016 explainer, Technology in Education: An Overview. Early in the education technology boom, “distance learning” ...

The blackboard might look a little fuzzy from a distance, but before you chalk it up to poor vision, it might be time to take a closer look. Distance education has been around for centuries, ...

Effective distance learning is about content — specifically, content delivery and content comprehension. In other words, distance learning is about people. Because it’s people, after all, who send the ...

In March, Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended state laws setting the length of the school year and minimum daily instructional minutes when he signed an executive order to fully fund schools for the rest of ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — Students are returning to class — but not necessarily to school — as winter break comes to an end. Teachers from districts around Lancaster County share some of the ...

In 1840, Sir Issac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, came up with an ingenious idea for delivering instruction to a potentially limitless audience: correspondence courses by mail. Pitman's ...

Levi Larrabee, a fourth grader at Legacy Traditional School, worked on a science assignment Tuesday in what looked like a makeshift office cubicle at the kitchen table as his sister, Lily, sat down to ...

In the past few weeks, many of my high school students have sent me emails apologizing profusely for not turning in the work I assigned, for not watching the videos I made, and for not responding to ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Florida's top education official on Wednesday hinted that distance learning related to the COVID-19 pandemic may not be in place next school year. During a news conference in ...