Vassar Reflects on Two Months of Distance Learning
May 19, 2020
May 19, 2020
POUGHKEEPSIE, New York, May 19 -- Vassar College issued the following news:
When they left the Vassar campus for Spring Break, most students had never heard of the teleconferencing platform Zoom. A few, perhaps, had taken an online course or two, but most had never had an academic experience that didn't involve a teacher in a classroom.
Then suddenly, with the outbreak of COVID-19, teaching and learning changed radically at Vassar and virtually all other colleges across . . .
When they left the Vassar campus for Spring Break, most students had never heard of the teleconferencing platform Zoom. A few, perhaps, had taken an online course or two, but most had never had an academic experience that didn't involve a teacher in a classroom.
Then suddenly, with the outbreak of COVID-19, teaching and learning changed radically at Vassar and virtually all other colleges across . . .