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 ...

The Instructional Design team in Purdue Extended Campus consists of Jason Carter, instructional designer, left; Chad Mueller, lead instructional designer for online learning, center; and Ji Hyun Yu, ...

For many students, participating in online class discussions feels like a chore—a box to check off for participation points rather than a lively dialogue. “I go in there and do it because I have to,” ...

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 ...

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, ...