The existing steady and continual rise of online learning in higher education has been
accelerated by COVID-19 and resulted in a move away from solely on-campus teaching …

Open textbooks have been developed in response to rising commercial textbook costs and
copyright constraints. Numerous studies have been conducted to examine open textbooks …

COVID-19 shifted schools and colleges to online instruction with little causal evidence of
outcomes. In the fall of 2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required …

This paper studies the dissemination of frontier knowledge through higher education.
Applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to the text of 1.7 M university …

We study the progress of women's representation and achievement in law schools. To do
this, we assemble a new dataset on the number of women and men students, faculty, and …

One persistent question in higher education is the efficacy of online education. In the fall of
2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required introductory economics course …

Considerable research on effective instruction in the virtual classroom exists. Yet very little is
known about the extent to which instructor presence (IP) based on the Community of Inquiry …

General chemistry is a gateway course for most STEM majors, so student success is a
priority for chemistry faculty. Providing quality information resources for students, including …

Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are less
expensive than commercial course materials. Previous findings have indicated that learning …

As the financial challenges facing the US higher education industry mount, colleges and
universities seek new activities that can improve their financial situation. Online education …