In many cases, distance-education programs are also changing the nature of teaching -- or at least how colleges think about teaching. Anthony J. Felicetti, associate vice president for academic ...

Eager to offer more-competitive benefits, Ford Motor Company and General Motors are sponsoring programs that will let employees earn degrees through distance education. Starting this September, ...

For the 2026 Best Online Programs rankings released today, U.S. News assessed nearly 1,850 online bachelor's and master's ...

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) last month proposed new guidelines to strengthen its oversight and data-gathering practices for distance education. According to a January proposal outlining ...

Whenever you're planning to pursue an online/distance education degree or certificate, you need to ask yourself plenty of hard questions, such as whether you have the discipline to succeed in an ...

American higher education is approaching a structural demand shock. Whether one labels it the "demographic cliff" or the ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Alejtin Berisha is a serial entrepreneur from Kosovo who is changing the educational landscape around the globe, both in-person and throughout the distance learning ecosystem. Berisha is the Founder ...

The Department of Education revisited proposed changes to asynchronous clock, credit-hour, and subscription-based programs in distance education. In previous years, the Department of Education’s final ...

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.

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