Author: Dr. Donald Hecht

Starting in 2020 and ongoing today, international students seeking to come to the United States to study found the welcome door shut tight.  In the … Read More ›

Over my five-decades of experiences with distance learning, from correspondence to online Internet, I have never seen a better time, or better reasons, to earn … Read More ›

It is an unfortunate, but true, fact that bricks-and-mortar, classroom-based universities and colleges have attempted to jury-rig online delivery onto their classroom model.  The 2020-21 … Read More ›

Has your college closed?  Colleges across America are feeling the painful consequences of their frantic efforts to keep campuses/classrooms open under the relentless virus attacks.  … Read More ›

I’m in the college business. Yes, it is a business. Despite all the platitudes about the nobility of Academics and academic institutions, the bottom line … Read More ›

As an educator, I have always believed in the importance of education and the ability of schools to survive, grow, and benefit society.  But that was before the COVID of … Read More ›

National Survey reveals that 55% of those impacted by COVID-19 now have a more favorable impression of working and learning online, and 67% would make … Read More ›

College leaders are torn between their earnest desire to open campus classrooms for the traditional start of the 2020/21 academic year or to stay closed. … Read More ›