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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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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. …

In today’s post, we handpicked for you from Chrome web store some of the best apps that can help you take control of your online time and beat Internet distractions.

https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2020/10/beat-digital-distraction-with-these.html…

As artificial intelligence moves us to a world without work, what does that mean for higher education institutions and their mission in the new economy?

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/8/interface-university-and-other-scenarios-for-the-ai-economy…

Our collaborative research group, based at Université Laval, Concordia University, Florida State University, University of Southern California and San Francisco State University, sought to better understand how universities planned to make sure all students would have access to online learning …

Always worried about the potential for embarrassing background noises at home during video meetings? Microsoft is working on an update that could save you from future videoconferencing faux pas. The company’s Microsoft 365 roadmap lists as in development “AI-based real-time …