Though virtual classrooms are nothing new, schools across the country are turning more to these digital alternatives to fill gaps created by the increasing teacher shortage. In Texas, some small ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — Teachers are getting ready for the new school year, but in a much different way than years past. Instead of prepping and arranging their space at school, educators are getting ...

Virtual learning is nowhere near its pandemic peak, but it has entered the K-12 education mainstream and remains an option for many students. That is why it is important for educators and policymakers ...

WHYY and The Notebook will be periodically checking in with two teachers for the rest of the academic year to see how they are coping with the move to virtual learning. We hope to recount their ...

In 2014, Google made a virtual reality viewer out of cardboard. In 2015, it’s turning it into a teaching tool for school classrooms. The Google Cardboard headset, which is mostly made out of cardboard ...

At a time when technology is influencing almost every part of our lives, changing the way we work, play, travel, shop and communicate with one another, one of the most exciting frontiers in ...

L ast year, Nhora Lucía Serrano added a twist to her literature course at Hamilton College. She asked her students to design worlds in virtual reality, inspired by novels such as Alice in Wonderland ...

Zoom's video chat service became a virtual classroom almost overnight as schools across the country transitioned online in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. But over the past year, there have been ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. When COVID-19 cases erupted across the ...