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 ...

In 2017, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General audited Western Governors University and labeled it a “correspondence education” provider rather than a “distance education” ...

The Education Department wants to collect much more information about distance education courses and the students enrolled in them as part of a broader effort to increase oversight of online programs.

There are an estimated 24,000-plus students who study by distance education in Australia. While their lessons are delivered remotely, by law, all of these students still need to be supervised by ...

Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

This week’s question-of-the-week is: What are your “go-to” instructional strategies and tools for making a virtual classroom work? Most Classroom Q & A columns begin with some comments from me, ...