AD“It is an earthquake,” said William E. “Brit” Kirwan, a former university president and retired chancellor of the University System of Maryland. ADPrinceton University, in New Jersey, announced Monday it will switch to online teaching, and it encouraged students to stay home after spring break. ADBy Friday, the rush to online teaching affected more than 1 million college students. The news was shocking for young people “being evicted from their college campus,” she said. Faculty everywhere were moving into overdrive to brush up on their online teaching techniques — or, in the case of some stuck-in-their-ways veterans, learn those skills for the first time.

Source: Washington Post March 14, 2020 00:33 UTC