Title: Distance Education Policy Effective Date: June 1, 2024 Responsible Office: Office of the Provost Revision Date: April 23, 2025 This policy applies to William & Mary (W&M) as a whole university, ...

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 ...

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

The Biden administration is moving forward on its ambitious plans to update the regulations governing accreditation and the definition of distance education, among other topics, the U.S. Education ...

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.

How did distance education change at colleges from 2019 to 2022? The U.S. Department of Education defines distance ed as “education that uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to ...

The summer of 2016 has been remarkable in the world of higher education regulation. On May 13, the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice issued a joint Dear Colleague letter ...

Distance education first appeared in the United States in the 1800s. At the time, students received the relevant material through the post and then returned it to the institution. Scholars in the ...

For years, “flexible learning” has become one of the most commonly used phrases in education. Yet in an increasingly crowded ...