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• Students adapt to taking online classes with a roommate -Maya Morita, Athens Post
  Students living in residence halls this semester are having to adapt to doing online classes while in the same room as their roommate. With some classes starting at the same time, students may find themselves having to adjust their learning in order to be courteous to their roommate. Erin Ashley, a sophomore studying meteorology, said that she […]
• 7 questions–and answers–about copyright during online learning - ROY KAUFMAN, eSchool News
  In determining whether to apply fair use to an infringement, the courts look at four factors set out in the statute (although even the statute itself says that these factors are “non-exclusive”–meaning that a judge can take other, similar factors into account as well):1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use […]
• Effective online course design starts with people - MICHAEL ATKINSON, eSchool News
  Often, success lies on a narrow path. It starts with the emotional intelligence to examine multiple points of view. For example, the campus distance learning administrator who seeks input and feedback from teachers and students before mapping a virtual learning framework. Or a teacher who imagines what it’s like to be a student who is […]
• Bridging the educational divide with tech skilling - JACKY WRIGHT, eCampus News
  Digital competencies will be essential for students' future success as workers--here's why tech skilling is critical. Closing the educational divide and the digital skills gap has always been important to technologically-minded educators, but the disruptions of COVID-19 have brought a new urgency. Ensuring all students can participate equitably and fulfill their dreams in society hinges on […]
• Who is ‘best in class’ for HE digital transformation? - Nic Mitchell, University World News
  The best in class for the digital transformation of higher education take a holistic approach, covering everything from student recruitment to enhancing the value of the student experience and improving outcomes and employability, according to market research for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group. But they are the exception, with an […]
• Have universities learned how to be ready for a crisis? - Nita Temmerman, University World News
  The traditional and continuing main functions of universities are to teach and to research and, in so doing, to meet the needs of society and improve it. The organisational structure should ensure teaching and research are both able to flourish. The structure should ensure the organisation is agile and that it encourages innovation. The structure […]
• Higher education needs to develop better crisis responses - Stefania Giannini and Kristin Vinje, University World News
  The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that no education system is resilient to crisis. And even if the digital revolution has transformed the higher education system more profoundly than anything else in the past decades, the pandemic has been no less hard-hitting. Its economic impact alone could force up to seven million students to drop out. International […]
• Online Learning Boom Opens New Avenues To Spread Indigenous Languages - SAVANNAH MAHER, KUMM
  As with almost all kinds of other schooling, the pandemic has forced some classes in Indigenous languages to shut down entirely. But it has also spurred development of online options to reach students and to bring new ones into the fold. Among them, the Mountain West News Bureau's Savannah Maher.https://www.npr.org/2021/02/13/967600325/online-learning-boom-opens-new-avenues-to-spread-indigenous-languages
• UGA professors discuss challenges of virtual and face-to-face learning - Laurel Lee Chatham, Red & Black
  The beginning of the University of Georgia’s spring semester has granted students, along with faculty, a variety of class formats to choose from as one can learn online or face-to-face.  Conducting classes online has allowed content to be delivered “anytime, anywhere,” Bramorski said. Online delivery of class material has presented flexibility for both students and faculty. “UGA […]
• Some like it hot: don’t forget to warm up online learning spaces - Lucinda McKnight, Times Higher Education
  As we’re all learning, the digital classroom can be a cold and lonely space. But even the most reluctant students and academics must remember that online learning has the potential for rich and meaningful interactions. The lack of “temperature” is one reason why many students prefer to learn face to face, meaning that “warming up” the […]
• UMN to pay Google $2.36M for new online learning platform - Josh Verges, Twin Cities Pioneer Press
  The University of Minnesota will pay Google $2.36 million to create a new online learning platform for the health sciences bachelor’s degree program at the Rochester campus. Starting in summer 2022, students will begin working toward their degree on an accelerated schedule, using a combination of virtual and in-person learning. The nearby Mayo Clinic will be integrated […]
• Howard University Partners with Coursera to Provide Online Educational Content - Alonda Thomas, Howard University
  “I am really excited about this partnership with Coursera, one of the preeminent purveyors of educational content in the 21st-century learning landscape, which will help us spread the vision and mission of Howard University beyond our campus,” said President Wayne A. I. Frederick, who is a member of Coursera’s University Advisory Board. “Historically, there has […]
• How higher ed can start 2021 off right - Casey Welch, eCampus News
  Higher education leaders would do well to take COVID-induced changes into consideration when identifying new ways to meet students' needs.  For example, career preparation has always been top of mind for college-bound teens. But more students now than ever before are beginning to realize the need to plan ahead. A recent survey found that 99 percent […]
• Data Privacy Day 2021 Outreach: Six Words about Privacy - Svetla Sytch, EDUCAUSE Review
  They debuted Six Words on Cybersecurity at UCSD and Six Words about Privacy at U-M, inviting members of their campus communities to submit six words describing what security and privacy meant to them. Listen to this podcast to hear from Corn and Bermann about how they got their projects started. Boiling thoughts down to six words […]
• First it was Agile software development, now Agile management is remaking the workplace - Mark Samuels, ZDNet
  Mark Evans, managing director of marketing and digital at insurer Direct Line, says the key to effective Agile management is what's known as servant leadership, a leadership philosophy in which the main goal of the leader is to serve. Rather than commanding and controlling, leaders need to give other people the power to make decisions. Evans […]
• Colleges Vowed a Safer Spring. Then Students, and Variants, Arrived. - Stephanie Saul and Shawn Hubler, NY Times
  With nearly a year of coronavirus experience behind them, leaders at Michigan and other U.S. universities ushered in the new term pledging not to repeat the errors of last year, when infection rates soared on campuses and in the surrounding communities. A New York Times effort has recorded more than 397,000 cases and at least […]
• 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2021 - Jennifer Gonzolez, Cult of Pedagogy
  t’s hard to imagine a time in recent history when we had more distractions, more challenges, more stuff to think about that is way more important than technology. But as someone reminded me earlier today, the show must go on. You still have work to do. You still have students who need an education. And […]
• How Open Education Resources (OER) Can Cross the Digital Divide - Kevin Hogan, Marketscale
    Less than a decade after publishing its first free, openly licensed textbook, OpenStax — Rice University’s educational technology initiative — has saved students $1.2 billion. In this episode of Edtech Today, Kevin Hogan sits down with the Managing Director of OpenStax, Daniel Williamson, to discuss his organization’s efforts to offer openly licensed textbooks integrated […]
• Remote Learning Isn’t Just for Kids - Kerry Hannon, NY Times
  New online tools and an array of remote classes and programs are ramping up education and training for adults. The internet has empowered adult learners by providing new online tools to ramp up education and training. “The need for workers to keep pace with fast-moving economic, cultural and technological changes, combined with longer careers, will add […]
• Asynchronous classes are supposed to make learning flexible. Some students say they’re stressful - Sophie Suter, Indiana Daily Studnet
  IU introduced different modes for classes before this academic year started due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The three modes are in-person instruction, hybrid classes and completely online classes. One type of online class is asynchronous, in which students have no live meeting times. Asynchronous classes require students to access online materials and learn through prerecorded lectures, […]