In a virtual class, or online class, professors typically give students assignments to complete each week. For example, week 1 coursework for the class will become available on the site on a Monday.

Makeup Classes Have Gone Virtual—and We Tried One Out Many small companies and beauticians have updated in-store lessons for the new stay-at-home world. Think beauty YouTube, but better.

While Princeton students have just begun the fall semester, their professors have been working for months to reimagine and innovate how classes are taught in our new virtual world.

Communications professor Jeremy Bailenson and first-year communications Ph.D. student Cyan DeVeaux have reimagined what education can look like using virtual reality.

Class 2.0 is a next-generation virtual classroom that offers users an improved, simplified user experience with flexible layouts, giving instructors and learners more space to view content and ...

Armed with a lifelong affinity for video games and a $6,000 faculty teaching grant, I have spent the past 15 months working on a pilot project to illustrate the value of using virtual reality in ...

Later today, the Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference is kicking off in Second Life . So it is really rather ironic that we should have a situation crop up on the eve of it that ...

Bored at home: Streaming concerts, virtual classes and 6 other ways to stay connected Being in quarantine doesn't mean sacrificing human contact, just tweaking it a bit.

The instructional techniques teachers normally use won't work in classes with 50, 60, or 70 students, educators say.

As a farewell gesture, one college class surprised their professor during a virtual class, in a video that now gone viral on TikTok.

In addition to her Zoom classes, she has developed virtual corporate events -- some for team-building exercises, for example. Private virtual parties are popular too, she said.