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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 …

Google might soon truncate the full address of websites you visit. By only showing the domain name of a website in the address bar rather than the full URL, Google’s move could actually help people increase their security when browsing …

Good online courses can be more personal and rewarding for students than the traditional learning in large lecture halls. Here’s some advice for students about what to look for as learning remains online.

https://theconversation.com/the-7-elements-of-a-good-online-course-139736…

Learning ecosystems help break silos and scaffold collaboration and equity for students, educators, and communities.

https://remakelearning.org/blog/2020/06/08/students-thrive-ecosystem/…

Teachers worried about students zoning out during distance learning can lean on these programs for help.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-keep-students-attention-virtual-classroom…

This is a conversation with some people from the health care industry in the U.S. asking about what I expect to see after the current wave of technology. The current wave, which I discussed in my E-Learning 3.0 course, involves …

As virtual classrooms and online learning proliferate, researchers are working to quantify what works and what doesn’t.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/health/school-learning-online-education.html…

We need to gather as much data as we can so we can build on this and implement it in the long term. This will ensure that, first of all, we don’t go back to the old way of doing …

There are plenty of online tools for removing image backgrounds. Once the image background is removed you can then upload the new version of the image to your presentation. Here are some free tools you can use to remove image …

Good discussion and review of a work futures study Ahead By A Decade: Employment in 2030 published last week by the Brookfield Institute in comparison with similar work done by the “Canadian Occupational Projection System” (COPS).

http://higheredstrategy.com/work-in-2030/

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This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like.

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/onlineteaching/…

Microsoft Teams has features like a virtual classroom in which there are virtual classes for learning. Chat and video conference interactions, to task submissions and quizzes. Everything makes Microsoft Teams a comfortable place to study in virtual classrooms. However, still …

We’re seeking and scrolling in the dark. We’re doing this literally, as we sit up at 2 a.m. in our bedrooms, scrolling and clicking and unable to sleep. And figuratively, clicking through mazes of media messages on social media, pushing …