One in three instructors who responded to Inside Higher Ed’s 2017 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology said they have taken online courses for credit -- but 67 percent of the respondents said ...

Before 2015, faculty at the University of Arizona who wanted to teach online didn't have much in the way of formal support for building their online courses. Instructors got approval from their ...

Institutions often struggle to persuade full-time instructors to stray from tradition and start teaching online courses. In some cases, adjunct instructors bear the burden when other faculty members ...

Faculty training is a monumental undertaking when a university’s payroll includes 21,500 online instructors who are spread out across the country. Not to mention the fact that many have other, ...

New study discusses the skills and motivations of qualified online faculty in order to prevent burnout, inefficiency. Not all faculty are created equal for online learning, argues a new report. In the ...

Responding to student questions can become a fulltime job. Tammy Hall encourages first-time online instructors to ready themselves for any and all student questions on the first day of class, knowing ...

Have you ever wondered what characteristics an online instructor should have to be effective? Well… there are many characteristics that can help us be effective as online instructors. Here, we will be ...

The best online instructor lets go of their ego to allow learning which benefits both them and their students. They engage students by looking at where they are individually in their learning path and ...

Everyone remembers the students in grade school who sat in the front, raised their hands to give every answer, endlessly complimented the teacher, grabbed attention at every opportunity and frustrated ...

College students in online courses give better evaluations to instructors they think are men -- even when the instructor is actually a woman. "The ratings that students give instructors are really ...

Online course instructors are 94 percent more likely to respond to discussion forum comments made by students with names connoting that they are white and male compared to other race-gender groups, ...