Category: Edtech

An interesting tool, developed by UBC which allows a group of people get together to watch a YouTube stream (ideally, a live stream, but it could be an Office rerun). In the sidebar is a video chat, so people can …

AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/14/1010474/ai-reads-human-emotions-should-it/…

Discord’s founders just wanted to create a way to talk to their gamer friends. They created something much bigger.

https://www.protocol.com/discord…

Atlas of the Future is offering a series of talks on the future of education. “Every Thursday, for seven weeks, an international expert will connect online to present their ideas about the future of education and answer questions from the …

Darknet, Dark Web, Deep Web, and Surface Web — every tech enthusiast had come across these terminologies without knowing its actual meaning. Sometimes even the experts get confused with these terms too. We hope this post will clear some air …

The shock of nearly all colleges and universities moving their classes to emergency online learning resulted in several lessons that apply well into the future. As we move into planning for 2021-2022 and a post-pandemic college/university experience, what are the …

Google just launched the Document AI (DocAI) platform, a console for document processing hosted in Google Cloud, in preview.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/11/04/google-launches-document-ai-suite-of-parsing-and-processing-tools-in-preview/

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The argument is simply this: “there are benefits of online learning that do not exist in face-to-face teaching, whereas there are no benefits in face-to-face teaching that could not exist in online teaching.” But what about in practice, where we …

A new higher education institution is opening in London next autumn which will not teach traditional separate subjects – but will be able to award its own degrees.

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-54725017…

After being kept on life support for arguably far too long, Flash will finally be sent to that big hard drive in the sky by the end of this year. To make the goodbye a little easier, Microsoft has released …

For those new to the platform, we put together this quick beginner’s guide. Here you’ll learn all of the basic tasks you need to know, plus a few advanced tutorials for things like virtual meeting backgrounds and more.

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-use-microsoft-teams-1165094/amp/…

While lost ancient languages are more than a mere academic inquisitiveness, humans miss a complete knowledge about the people who spoke them. Thus, in an effort to decode such languages, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) …

Design matters in higher education. Inclusive design and design justice provide frameworks and strategies that are attentive to learners for whom education has not typically been designed.

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/10/inclusive-design-and-design-justice-strategies-to-shape-our-classes-and-communities…

Microsoft saw some big growth in Microsoft Teams at the beginning of the pandemic, and it has kept accelerating over the past six months. Microsoft Teams now has 115 million daily active users. That’s a more than 50 percent rise …

Recently, YouTube made some changes to the way that the caption editing process works. Those changes are for the better as they’ve made it easier to adjust the correlation between timestamps and your edited captions. In the following video I …