Many universities in the United States switched to online classes due to the outbreak of coronavirus.
On Tuesday, new York University (NYU) has sent its students an email in which he stated that from 11 to 13 March, it will hold the test of distance learning as a transition from Autonomous personal learning to online classes during the epidemic.
Spring break is from 14 to 20 March will continue as usual. After that, NYU will hold remote training until March 27, and then decide how to proceed.
Until March 29 NYU departments will not be allowed to unnecessary public gatherings, and encourages the University to cancel or postpone these activities or conduct them on the Internet. But the lab will be open as usual, and research activities will continue.
During an epidemic all school-funded trip to Washington and California are canceled, and highly recommended to teachers and students in the campus canceled foreign lectures and scientific conferences.
This step was taken because many universities have switched to distance learning is personal learning, including Stanford University , Columbia University, University of southern California, University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, rice University, Vanderbilt University and Ohio. University.
The University of Washington, located in Seattle, Washington, was the first University in the United States, March 6 stopped full-time employment, because the employee of the University, was allegedly tested positive for coronavirus, which was confirmed on 7 March.