PORT TOWNSEND — Jennifer Pierce will present “Wildfires, Climate and Erosion” at 4 p.m. Saturday. The free online lecture is sponsored by the Quimper Geologic Society. Pierce is a professor in the ...

Nicholas Presnell has two professors for linear algebra: one official and one virtual. The first is at Arizona State University, where Mr. Presnell is a part-time graduate student in electrical ...

James Nowick has got the world on a screen. He’s logged into a big map of the planet and is cross-referencing it with a YouTube list of the top countries in which people have viewed one of his online ...

Instructors often ask, “Is a live lecture preferable to a pre-recorded lecture?” In the realm of online teaching and learning, pre-recorded content is always preferable to live lectures because ...

To stay focused during long online lectures, set up a distraction-free study space, break the lecture into smaller mental checkpoints, and take quick movement breaks. Use interactive tools, take ...

A Japanese woman who was officially certified as an astronaut last year has given an online lecture about her training to Japanese people living in the United States. Yoneda Ayu is undergoing training ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. What to do when online notes mean students stop turning up for real-time lectures? Liza Power reports on plug-and-play learning. Is it ...