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As the number of things that remain out of our control grows (spacing of desks, movement in and between classes, scheduling), there are still a number space design considerations that we can control and which can allow our students to …

Like the entertainment industry, colleges will need to embrace digital services in order to survive.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/university-like-cd-streaming-age/613291/

American higher ed is moving ahead with fall 2020 planning.  Let’s check in with current developments and see what they suggest for the next academic year.

https://bryanalexander.org/scenarios/towards-fall-2020-in-higher-education-what-an-in-person-semester-really-means/

Education is an integral part of human development. Being rapidly updated and having already gone through three major stages, education 4.0 will use technologies that don’t exist yet, and will focus on creative thinking instead of rote-learning.

https://yourstory.com/2020/06/education-four-creative-curriculum-learning-technology

A new professional development offering from Lumen Learning aims to help higher education faculty improve their teaching. Lumen Circles combines an online learning platform with “facilitated fellowships” that connect faculty with peers to form a virtual community of practice.

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2020/06/17/lumen-learning-intros-professional-development-program-for-faculty.aspx…

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced several new Microsoft Teams features that will better target education users. Microsoft Teams is known as an enterprise-level collaboration tool that allows chatting, file sharing, and meeting in a centralized, secure location. Microsoft Teams already …

If you’re already using OneNote for Windows or OneNote 2016, then these features will speed up your work. And if you’ve never used it before, you’re about to find out how useful these OneNote features can be to organize almost …

How much work is too much (or too little) work for my students? How much work is too much work for my TAs or for me? How do I design an online course? A post where I propose ‘Total Work …

Microsoft is launching the personal version of Microsoft Teams today in preview. It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to remain relevant with consumers and win them back after a series of exits from consumer-friendly services.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21298766/microsoft-teams-personal-launch-preview-accounts?

With BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), the expense of providing employees company-owned devices and then supporting them was replaced with employee allowances to use their own phones, tablets, and laptops.  

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-your-organization-needs-a-byod-policy/

The long awaited release of Moodle 3.9 is almost here! In June, we’ll see a range of enhancements for Moodle students, teachers and administrators. Let’s take a look at some of the new features you can expect to see in …

The Chronicle analyzed 712 responses from faculty members and 457 from administrators to see what terms were among those that occurred most commonly (variants of the same word were grouped). Here’s what we found, edited for brevity and clarity.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/in-their-own-words-here-s/248989?key=wYmokCnDzR4h9eFNudrs4pTiEZ600aCSnzzv6JPbstvoexSQqbRY9z2f5W89_jz2MEcwd2huSUx5VVZfeWJ6eGwyaTZZZHh2cVZSYVZzTUhwOFpOc2l0Wndubw…

The rapid shift to online work and study has forced providers to extend already over-stretched budgets. ‘Emergency’ IT infrastructure and software have been brought in at pace, and we’ve seen fast-track digital upskilling for staff and students. Such upheaval posed …