This brief shows that while LACCD faculty are deeply committed to making distance education work for students, sustaining high-quality online and hybrid instruction requires stronger institutional supports for faculty practice and well-being.
This brief analyzes the costs of distance education in LACCD, finding that asynchronous courses require the most faculty time and that faculty labor dominates instructional costs across modalities.
This brief shows that sustaining effective distance education at LACCD depends on balancing flexible course options with stronger institutional supports for faculty capacity, connection, and well-being.
This brief examines faculty experiences with distance education in LACCD, drawing on focus groups conducted as part of the LTES study following significant pandemic-era investments in online learning.
This brief examines faculty perceptions and student outcomes related to online education in LACCD, finding that course modality influences academic success in ways that vary across subjects despite expanded investments in online learning.
Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University -- one of 24 with the title of University Professor, Harvard's most distinguished faculty position. He is based in the Department of Government (in the Faculty of Arts...
Thomas Kane is an economist, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, member of the Yidan Prize Foundation Council of Luminaries, and faculty director of CEPR. Between 2009 and 2012, he directed the Measures of...
Deirdre Bloome is Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Faculty Member at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Bloome's research takes a demographic approach toward investigating how patterns of social...
Desmond Ang is an applied economist and associate professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His research examines the causes and consequences of racial discrimination and has been published in leading journals including American Economic...
