The Conversation

Distance learning: the five qualities student teachers need to succeed

Students can feel very isolated when studying through a distance education programme. Shutterstock International bodies, politicians, policy makers and researchers have always been interested in the ...
The Conversation

Distance learning changes lives, but comes with its own challenges

For students outside cities, participation in distance learning can be a lonely struggle. Tobi Oshinnaike via Unsplash Across Africa, distance education has become one of the most powerful forces for ...
Nature

Why lockdown and distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to increase the social class achievement gap

The widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in 2019–2020 have drastically increased health, social and economic inequalities 1,2. For more than 900 million learners around the world, ...
Nature

Note-taking fosters distance video learning: smartphones as risk and intellectual values as protective factors

Distance video learning, especially with how-to videos, has become extremely popular. Whereas previous studies revealed note-taking as a prominent and promising support measure for video learning in ...