Last March, Zoom, the ubiquitous online conferencing platform, became a staple of daily life for many students and educators as learning shifted online. Millions downloaded it—and first learned of ...

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 ...

Zoom Video Communications ZM recently announced the introduction of new features for education to enhance the hybrid learning experience for students and educators. These features are designed to help ...

As remote learning and Zoom meetings become more prevalent, virtual meetings have the potential to become stale and unengaging. The difference between in-class and online capabilities necessitates new ...

In April 2020, Zoom announced it had surpassed 300 million daily meeting participants — 30 times the amount recorded in December 2019. This influx of new users consisted of students, teachers and ...

Early in the remote learning efforts of the spring semester last year, we found that many faculty members unaccustomed to teaching online made few adaptations to the new delivery mode other than ...

Early this year, after the pandemic had moved my classroom online, a student asked if we could try “silent meetings” in a course I was teaching. At first I assumed that, like many of us, he was just ...

Concentrating in large lecture halls has always been a challenge for Harper Chambers, a rising senior studying neuroscience at Princeton University. That’s because Chambers has autism, which he said ...

Well, what a difference a vaccine makes. A few months ago, we looked ahead with uncertainty about what the next academic year would be like—more remote teaching and masks or a return to some new ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Schools long turned to “room parents” to support communication between teachers and parents and help in the classroom, but the coronavirus pandemic often barred volunteer parents ...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, students, faculty and administrators faced challenges amid the urgent pivot to emergency remote instruction. The pandemic and resulting quarantines ...

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 ...