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Wondering about Classin vs Zoom for your online classes? You’re in the right place! There are a lot of options for online teaching platforms like Zoom and Classin these days, including big hitters ...
With Covid cases dropping and vaccination rates climbing, many facets of life are returning to pre-pandemic levels. Presumably, this means that many faculty members will teach courses in person on ...
In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming ...
This story is part of Fast Company’s Reinventing Education package. As millions of students begin school during a deadly pandemic and global recession, we’re highlighting the ongoing efforts to keep ...
Last March, Zoom, the ubiquitous online conferencing platform, became a staple of daily life for many students and educators as learning shifted online. Millions downloaded it—and first learned of ...
“Let’s go on a trip. Come with me. Grab your book bag, get your passport, ear muffs, a hat, swimming goggles, sunglasses, some sunblock. You might also want to put some snacks in there, gloves, and a ...
In February 2020, if anyone had asked me to teach a class online, I would have flatly refused. Nope. Never. No way, San José! Plato and Socrates taught in person, and so did I. Why? Because the best ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Pulsipher covers reinvigorating the value of higher education. The adoption of online education had been slow and ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Singapore has suspended the use of Zoom for online education after hackers hijacked a lesson and showed obscene images to students. In what is known as “Zoombombing,” two hackers ...
My organization, the Institute for Humane Studies, is in the business of supporting university professors. So, when Covid-19 hit, we reached out to ask faculty partners what they needed, what was ...
As the semester edges toward the end of the academic year, the provost at the university where I teach has tentatively announced plans to reopen in the fall. I can’t wait to cancel my Zoom account. A ...