Zoom Ventures Far Beyond Video Calls
Insights from Zoomtopia 23 Most institutions use Zoom for video in some fashion, whether via a full enterprise license, decentralized individual licenses, or the free version. Zoom has become synonymous with hybrid classes and work, but if you aren’t thinking about how Zoom can meet institutional needs beyond virtual meetings, you should be. Zoom has […]
Five Trends on Leading LMS Vendor Roadmaps
Three leading learning management system (LMS) vendors hosted user conferences within two weeks of each other last month. Anthology (Blackboard Learn) and D2L (Brightspace) offered in-person and hybrid events, while Instructure (Canvas) maintained the single-day virtual format it introduced at the beginning of the pandemic. The tight timing across the three events allowed for an […]
Record, Don’t Store: Advice for IT Leaders on Classroom Lecture Capture
As more faculty are recording and uploading every class lecture, IT leaders must advocate for quality over quantity—or face the consequences A year after higher education pivoted to remote instruction, video learning remains at the forefront of teaching and learning. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an advice piece in which the professor-author describes […]
Letting Go of Lecture Capture
When Teaching and Technology Evolve, the Naming Conventions Must Too “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare notwithstanding, we know that names matter. Research indicates that a person’s name can influence life choices, career success, and possibly physical […]
Hybrid Is Not the New Normal
This winter, I’ve been struck by how often I’ve heard that “hybrid is the new normal” for higher education.[1] EdTech vendor briefings are a common source, typically in the context of new or improved synchronous learning technology. Industry tends to define hybrid more broadly than institutions to include formal and informal combinations of asynchronous, synchronous, […]
