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As part of an ongoing commitment to provide students with clear and comprehensive guidance on online education and degree programs, OnlineEducation.com offers a broad range of informational resources on relevant topics in the field of higher education. These articles are meant to complement our rigorous research and reporting on specific online degrees, on trends in online learning, and on careers in fields linked to particular academic programs. The features section includes general interest stories, in-depth reports, and practical guides that delve into a wide array of subject areas, extending beyond online education, and reaching out into the larger world of knowledge and scholarship.

Five Schools with Outstanding Finance Faculty

The Harvard University Extension School, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Miami all boast exceptional faculty in finance, who are renowned for their accomplishments in academia, research, and business.

Five Universities with Exceptional Data Science Faculty

These 15 data science professors have been recognized for their expertise and significant contributions to the field. They have demonstrated their expertise through years of study, research, service, leadership, and teaching excellence.

Five Universities with Exceptional Healthcare Administration Faculty

Faculty members in healthcare administration bring unique value to the field thanks to their multidisciplinary educational and professional backgrounds. The fifteen professors profiled below have demonstrated their expertise in the field of healthcare administration through years of work experience, teaching, and study.

Follow Developments in Nursing and Healthcare with these Top Nursing Professors on Twitter

Nursing professors educate and a train a wide range of students, including those studying for undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degrees as well as post-graduate certifications. Included in this list are researchers breaking scientific ground related to administering the HPV vaccine, using technology for medical treatment, and developing virtual simulations for use in education. All of these professors use Twitter actively.

Follow the Future of Technology with these Top CTOs on Twitter

Consider following some or all of these these brilliant thought leaders and innovators on Twitter to better understand how they think about and apply technology today, and how they may do so tomorrow. All the CTOs listed tweet regularly.

Follow these Top Cybersecurity Professors on Twitter

By following and engaging with these top cybersecurity professors on Twitter, you can gain insight into how cybersecurity technology and policy are changing as well as the threats faced by governments, businesses and individuals, and how to protect against them.

Four Universities with Outstanding Counseling Faculty

Therapists and counselors are crucial to the health of the population. Research shows that differences in treatment according to various mental health disorders are less critical to the mental wellbeing of the patient than the person who provides the treatment.

From Brick-and-Mortar to Online Learning: The University Response to Covid-19

Before the pandemic, going to school online was a route utilized mostly by non-traditional students. But since late spring, that paradigm has flipped completely. The virtual classroom space is now our default.

Galileo Galilei – The Father of Modern Science

Depending on the context in which his achievements are assessed, Galileo can and has been hailed as the father of observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, the father of the scientific method, or, as Albert Einstein famously noted, “the father of modern science.” Learn more about Galileo’s life and work.

Guide to Employers Who Subsidize Online Education

Amongst many perks of working for some of the country’s top employers is help with paying for college. Today’s forward-thinking organizations realize the advantages of investing in their human assets. They value employee satisfaction and the future profitability of employees with the skill sets and knowledge to advance their market position.

Guide to Mathematics and Statistics: Programs & Careers

Mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistical modeling are integral to quantitative literacy, STEM education, and to the data-driven information technologies that have penetrated every sector of our economy.

Guide to Online Education Resources for Elementary School Teachers

The explosion in technologies, methods, and online tools for elementary school teachers has been both beneficial and overwhelming. On the one hand, access to ideas from teachers across the globe has never been faster or easier, allowing educational professionals to pick and choose from an infinite buffet of options; on the other, it can be difficult to feel the rain when one is in the ocean. In other words, with the dizzying wealth of resources, how can elementary teachers ensure that they’re investing their time in the time-tested, web-based tools and applications to create the optimal benefit for their students?

Guide to Online Education Resources for Middle & High School Students

Students in lower grades are generally expected to need more help than older students in middle and high school to support their education through online learning models. However, given the ocean of resources available online, it can be difficult for students even in higher grade levels to search for material on subjects they are still in the process of learning.

Helping EdTech Companies Navigate U.S. Digital Education Ecosystems

The educational technology landscape (edtech) in the United States is dynamic and multifaceted, with abundant opportunities yet fraught with challenges. Digital transformation is reshaping the educational landscape, and edtech companies are increasingly integrated into learning systems—with a massive market value projected to reach $421 billion by 2032.

How African EdTech Leaders Leverage Technology

Edtech is providing important solutions to education providers and students globally, and is gaining speed in developing regions of the world, such as Africa. A Microsoft startup accelerator recently announced its acceptance of 12 African startups into its program. Meanwhile, countries on the continent such as Morocco began launching venture capital (VC) funds backing edtech startups and opportunities.

How Big Tech Innovations Affect Educational Equality & Access

While remote learning has often been lauded as an avenue for educational opportunities across socioeconomic levels, others are not so sure the surge of big tech’s involvement in online education is positive. Professors Spiros Protopsaltis and Sandy Baum argue online coursework has contributed to increasing gaps in educational success across socioeconomic groups while failing to improve affordability.

How Blockchain Can Streamline Recordkeeping at Universities

Given that the pandemic may have already accelerated the disruption of the traditional college business model, there is a critical need for students and employers to be able to verify and back educational background and expertise from various institutions and programs. The initial technological darling of the financial and cryptocurrency world, blockchain, may provide the best contender to meet this need.

How Can Institutions and Governments Facilitate 21st-Century Skills for Students?

Higher education institutions are increasingly expected to support students in developing higher-order thinking skills, such as creativity and critical thinking, and technical knowledge, to better respond to labor market demands and contribute to innovation in society.

How Do Employers View Online Degrees?

While distance education has existed since the nineteenth century when correspondence courses arose in Western Europe, there are still questions about online learning’s effectiveness and a generalized feeling that it’s not the same as a traditional brick-and-mortar experience. For prospective online students, one major concern is how future employers will view a degree achieved online.

How Do Universities Design Online Programs?

The edtech industry and online education as a whole are brand new fields. This is mainly due to advances in technology, such as the internet, streaming, and cloud computing. However, the concept has roots that date back centuries.

How has Calbright Evolved Throughout the Pandemic?

The onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic was also a shock to many educational institutions globally—but what impact, if any, did it have on Calbright’s online model in its nascent stages?

How Online Education Helps Career Changers in the Automation Age

Online education gives students the freedom to work their school work around their existing obligations that can’t be put on the backburner. While an adult may not be able to drop all of their responsibilities to pursue a new degree full time at a traditional campus, they may be able to pursue new skills during their off-hours.

How Online Education Helps Marginalized University Students

A group of articles recently emerged in the press on a surprising topic. These stories explore how significant numbers of college and graduate students don’t want to return to classrooms again as if it were 2019. Instead, they prefer to continue with online education as they did during the pandemic.

How the Social Distancing Era is Reshaping Education: Is Online Learning the New Normal?

While the current COVID-19 pandemic is challenging in a multitude of ways, there is a silver lining to be gleaned in the educational world: it is forcing learning institutions that have lagged behind the digital revolution to quickly come up to speed.

How to Boost Student Engagement in Online Courses

Engagement in online learning remains a curious paradox. On the one hand, demand for online education platforms has skyrocketed recently during the pandemic. Coursera, the leading provider of massive open online courses (MOOCs), reported that during 2020, its enrollments topped 59 million students, soaring 248 percent over the previous year. But on the other hand, engagement in these types of courses remains abysmal, with one team of researchers having estimated completion rates of around 3 percent.