Background Not long ago, online education had limited diffusion in universities, and most
people considered it a tertiary experimental add-on to education (Burnette, 2015). Now …

Best Practices in Online Program Development is a practical, hands-on guide that provides
the concrete strategies that academic and administrative departments within institutions of …

Over the past decade or more, emerging trends such as online degree programs and
analytics have dramatically increased the ways learning professionals work (Sundt, Berry, & …

Volume 50, Number 4 TechTrends 2 18 months after the initial proposal and still without an
answer, the vendor left with their check, frustrated by the speed of progress in higher …

Summary This Special Issue was developed to provide a platform for lectures in higher
education to showcase innovative pedagogical approaches that emerged during the COVID …

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in online education becoming a larger and more
central part of the mission of many colleges and universities. A growing number of …

Many universities have built and continue to maintain online programs as a normal part of
the curriculum. However, universities must continue to upgrade and/or design new programs …

The availability of digital technology has facilitated online learning to become one of the
primary avenues for education among students of all levels (Mayer, 2018). With increasing …

1 nline education is one of the fastest growing segments of higher education in the US—and
demand continues to rise (Seaman, Allen, & Seaman, 2018; Ginder, Kelly-Reid, & Mann …

A glance at the aggregate statistics for online learning in postsecondary education leaves no
doubt that it is a blazing success. Nearly a third of all college students are taking at least one …