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At Université Paris-Saclay, we have tried several new tools and methods, testing them with our students and sharing them among ourselves. Here are five tips that have improved (in part at least) our daily lives as lockdown lecturers.

https://phys.org/news/2021-02-ideas-distance.html…

A new update for Microsoft Word arriving next month is bringing a feature that has been long due. Predictive typing or the ‘Text Prediction’ feature will automatically suggest new words as you are typing a sentence. While it may be …

Critical pedagogy aims to deeply question our epistemological assumptions—about teaching, about education, about power, about expertise—and while this can be exhilarating, it is almost never a picnic.

https://www.seanmichaelmorris.com/reflections-on-teaching-through-the-screen/…

Microsoft has tried its hardest to convince people that working on the cloud is the future, but some users like the idea of owning a product instead of leasing it out for a monthly fee. If the words “subscription model” …

Mote lets you add voice comments to Google Classroom, Slides, and Docs. As of yesterday it lets you add voice comments to Gmail messages. Mote recordings in Gmail can be played by anyone who receives your email. Recipients don’t need …

Miro is an excellent whiteboard platform to boost your collaborative team work. You can use it to host online meetings, run collective brainstorming sessions, and organize remote workshops. Miro’s intuitive canvas offers a wide variety of features to help you …

A newly released Moodle plugin, “Debate”, allows learners to take sides in a discussion and actively express their opinions.

https://moodle.com/news/online-classroom-debate-moodle-plugin/…

Reinforcement learning is the branch of artificial intelligence that has become renowned for mastering board and video games. Reinforcement learning models seek to maximize rewards. In the case of online ads, the RL model will try to find the ad …

Teachers spend countless hours correcting student work because feedback is critical to students’ learning process. Regrettably, an important portion of such feedback is not understood or deemed irrelevant by students, or worse yet, left unread. How can we get students …

COVID-19 has been extraordinarily challenging for universities and students, and the disruption will likely persist beyond the rollout of a vaccine.  Here are five changes made to higher education that it would be valuable to continue with after COVID-19.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/covid-19-pandemic-higher-education-online-resources-students-lecturers-learning-teaching/…

Aaron Ansuini, a student at Concordia University in Montreal., was surprised to find out that the professor listed on his syllabus and featured in his video lectures passed away in 2019.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-02-09-is-it-still-teaching-when-the-professor-is-dead…

See how to use the following free tools to create short audio recordings: Vocaroo, Online Voice Recorder, and Twisted Wave. 

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2021/02/three-easy-ways-for-students-to-make.html…

With the technology now available, it’s clear that simply broadcasting pre-recorded lectures is no longer an option for forward-thinking universities.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/feb/16/the-future-of-online-learning-the-long-term-trends-accelerated-by-covid-19…

Feedback is often a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. Nevertheless, feedback offered throughout the duration of the course (formative feedback), is a crucial element in the learning process. Together with the feedback given at the end of the course (summative feedback), …

The Windows desktop isn’t meant to be a folder for your files. Here are some of the better options to store your files.

https://www.muo.com/tag/3-better-ways-store-files-desktop…