By Benedict Carey (The New York Times) As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn’t. Nate Zim, a junior at Lab High School in Manhattan, with his mother, Corey Zim, at home in March as he logged onto his first virtual classroom, a Spanish class.Credit…Benjamin Norman for The New York Times Over…
The rush of colleges and universities to complete the current academic year online in response to the COVID-19 crisis, and possibly prepare hastily for the same delivery mode this coming fall, could well result in unprecedented turbulence for faculty, students and families. The unavoidable haste of implementation presents a highly uneven and potentially unsatisfying educational experience — threatening to further…