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Dear Commons Community,

For the past year,  I have had the pleasure of editing a special edition of Education Sciences that is now available online at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/education/special_issues/T3XIO39D6Z

Entitled, “Is Online Technology the Hope in Uncertain Times for Higher Education?”, it contains ten articles provided by thirty-one experts who offered their research as a basis for considering the question posed in this special edition. From their work, it is clear that colleges and universities are rapidly migrating to online technology in order to support instruction, research, counseling, academic services, and administrative efficiency.  

I thank Education Sciences for giving me the opportunity to edit a volume on such a critical topic. Most important, I thank the authors who contributed their research to this volume. Their work provides valuable insights for all interested in the future of higher education. Their perspectives are based on the study of issues across institutions in different parts of the world.  They have examined a variety of topics including data analytics, student evaluations, generative artificial intelligence, and MOOCs, to name a few, and  employed a wide variety of research methods: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed.  Sample sizes ranged from three case studies to a review of over two million responses collected on a student database.  

It was a pleasure working with this group of scholars and the staff at Education Sciences.

Tony

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