In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class had been scheduled to start. This is not an isolated incident.

The founder of Khan Academy, Sal Khan, argued in a recent TED talk for an idea called the “flipped classroom.” Now that videos of lectures can be placed online, he said, students should be assigned to ...

Will “hitting the books" soon be replaced by "downloading the video”? The University of California, Berkeley, announced it is “delivering educational content, including course lectures and symposia, ...