Even as massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to assume an increasingly prominent role in education, regularly enrolling thousands of students from around the world in classes taught by ...

It’s a question I keep seeing in faculty conversations on Twitter and elsewhere: Where are the examples of transformative online classes in the humanities? Academe has moved from the pedagogical ...

Frank Antonson’s retirement from teaching was quickly approaching, and he knew his Humanities course was going to die. The public school in Pennsylvania where he had been teaching for 35 years had ...

If we ever needed the humanities, that time is now. Our undergraduates read much less serious fiction than did their predecessors. Most rarely encounter the fine arts, whether the visual or performing ...

What skills does a graduate student need in order to disseminate knowledge and establish a professional profile for current and future job market? One answer is to offer a course designed to teach ...

My title is, admittedly, intentionally flippant, seeking to grab your attention in this clickbait age. Yet beneath its flippancy is a serious claim: that teaching postdocs can be a high-impact way to ...

President Barack Obama’s announcement in November of $28 million in new funding to better prepare STEM teachers is great news. It reminds me of my passion for science during those heady days of John F ...

"As Jason Jones said in yesterday’s post, “Doing it Wrong”, ProfHacker is not about telling anyone they’re “doing it wrong” or that they should change from “old” ways to some newfangled glitzy ...

When Tuloso-Midway High School principal Ann Bartosh came across an opportunity to nominate a teacher for a statewide award, one came to mind: Sarah Walker. Bartosh nominated Walker for the ...

Sydney Chaffee, who teaches 9th grade humanities at a small Boston public charter school, has been named the 2017 National Teacher of the Year. Chaffee, who has taught for 10 years, was announced as ...

To the editor: I applaud the state prison system for adding more options for prisoners to get an education, particularly in the often-undervalued humanities. As Project Rebound’s Romarilyn Ralston ...