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 …
Google launches Document AI suite of parsing and processing tools in preview
Google just launched the Document AI (DocAI) platform, a console for document processing hosted in Google Cloud, in preview.
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10 Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
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 …
Why, ‘logically’, online learning is superior to face-to-face teaching
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 …
New college to run degrees without subjects
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.
Microsoft Is Finally Purging Flash From Windows
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 …
How to use Microsoft Teams: Basic and advanced tutorials
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/…
Researchers built a system that can interpret lost ancient scripts automatically
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) …
Inclusive Design and Design Justice: Strategies to Shape Our Classes and Communities
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.
Microsoft Teams usage jumps 50 percent to 115 million daily active users
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 …
How to Edit the Captions in Your YouTube Videos
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 …
Students speak out on controversial lockdown browsers for online courses
When classes moved online for the fall semester, professors had no choice but to administer exams online as well. One solution many students have experienced is professors utilizing lockdown browsers during exams.
http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_b9236968-1928-11eb-a957-fb3b9a7038cc.html…
Vimeo Record – Another Screencasting Tool
Vimeo just launched a new screen recording tool. The new tool is simply called Vimeo Record. Vimeo Record is available as a free Chrome extension that you can get right here. Once you’ve installed Vimeo Record in Chrome it works …
Edit Audio and Video Like a Text Document With Descript
Learning to edit video and audio is tough, and complicated software interfaces don’t make things any easier. If that rings true for your editing experience, you may want to try Descript, a desktop video and audio editing program for Windows …
Learning To Reach Out: Embracing New Ways of Connecting
We have been all been in lockdown, sometimes in containment, some even quarantined. Exploring new ways of connecting, of contacting communities, and of communicating with children has been challenging but also exhilarating. Every day, we are learning from these experiences. …