What if you gave a Zoom class and nobody came? That was my nightmare come true when I tried to teach my first online class in March. Many professors had taught online for years, by choice. Not me. I ...

Last April, I was a month out from the end of the spring semester when I read in The Chronicle about the “stunning’ level of student disconnection.” At the time, I was teaching three in-person courses ...

University professors should consider making their spring classes available to the public now—We have a lot to learn—especially from each other—during the coronavirus crisis. Last week, spring break ...

For the past seven years, I’ve been teaching introductory and organic chemistry to lecture halls full of ambitious students who see my courses as a means to an end—medical school or requirements for a ...

Dr. Emanuel is a physician and a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. I’ve taught the same course to a class of undergraduate, M.B.A., medical and nursing ...