When the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, in March of 2020, colleges everywhere (including Johns Hopkins University, where I teach and conduct research) shut down and sent everyone home. Within two weeks, ...
It’s hard for instructors not to see the chat function of Zoom as a distraction from the main event: their lecture. While many instructors have posted their thoughts about the chat on their blogs, ...
First Liberty demands Arkansas Connections Academy restore religious speech rights after student Zion Ramos was censored for ...
The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. Of course, the term encapsulates more than ...
It may not seem too surprising that one of the best-funded edtech startups in the past year of pandemic has been a company that piggybacks on the success of Zoom to add tools for running online ...
In the last 14 months, we’ve had to get creative about finding new ways to be together and learn new things. Those of us lucky enough to have a strong internet connection and a working computer have ...
After Princeton experienced severe weather on the evening of Sept. 1, widespread flooding and downed trees caused several classes to return to a virtual format on Thursday — after just one day of ...
There has been growing interest recently in raising poultry and producing homegrown eggs. But, there is a lot to know before getting started, such as state and federal regulations, proper nutrition ...
The popular video communications tech company Zoom just agreed to pay out $84 million as a settlement for a class action lawsuit. The now-settled allegations: that Zoom violated its users’ privacy ...