Skype recently added a new Zoom-like video calling feature that goes one step ahead by letting hosts initiate meetings without signing up on the platform.
https://www.techspot.com/news/84702-skype-introduces-meet-now-video-calls-lure-users.html
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Performa is Offering a Non-Credit Online Course About Blended Learning in College Education for Free
Are you interested in blended learning? Do you already give blended learning courses and want to hone your skills or, on the contrary, do you not know anything about blended learning and are just curious? Performa has created a SPOC …
Microsoft thinks coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn
Microsoft is revealing more about how people are using its Teams app, and it predicts the novel coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point that will change how we work and learn forever. While usage continues to rise, Microsoft is …
How to spark your curiosity, scientifically
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Presentation of the Week: Choose your own eLearning adventure: How to create Branching Scenarios
Why being connected really matters for students
Being connected to each other is not only a basic human need but a logistical requirement for successful distance learning. And because of the efforts of educators, many students are already set up for success in this new reality.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/491267-why-being-connected-really-matters-for-students…
Five Search Tools Students Often Overlook
This is a good time to remind students about some basic search strategies like creating a search checklist and consulting vocabulary lists as part of the search process. Once they’ve done those basics it might be time for them to …
Students from Harvard and MIT are offering free tutoring to children who are now learning from home
An education company is offering free tutoring with students from top colleges.
https://www.insider.com/harvard-students-free-tutoring-kids-stuck-at-home-2020-3…
The seven principles of online learning: Feedback from faculty and alumni on its importance for teaching and learning
Effective online teaching and learning requires a carefully designed classroom that promotes student engagement with faculty, peers and course content. This research included an investigation of the importance of faculty–student communication and collaboration; student–student communication and collaboration; active learning techniques; …
Accessibility Suffers During Pandemic
Students with disabilities and their advocates say access to equitable education has been abandoned in the scramble to move classes online.
https://insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/06/remote-learning-shift-leaves-students-disabilities-behind…
Flattening the online education curve
Overnight there was a spike in demand at institutions for help and support to transition instruction online. In effect, measures taken to flatten the COVID curve created other curves; massive spikes in systems that were not designed to support such …
Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning
“The important thing is that whatever it is we are doing, it is a teachable moment,” says Hyman. Along with the challenge comes the opportunity to design innovative learning experiences and management systems that will last far longer than our …
BBC offers biggest online education push ‘in its history’
The BBC will offer daily programmes to help parents and children with schoolwork at home during the lockdown.
How to Build Your Own Cloud File Sync with Nextcloud
Services like Dropbox make it easy for you to access your files on multiple devices. However, you might want more control over them. In less than 30 minutes, you can have your own cloud-syncing service up and running on a …
As School Moves Online, Many Students Stay Logged Out
Teachers at some schools across the country report that less than half of their students are participating in online learning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/coronavirus-schools-attendance-absent.html…