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Enhancing Production for Online Communication
Developing a more robust set of tools for online communication can be an important element in transitioning to fully digital operations. With more and more interaction mediated by audio video communication systems such as Zoom, […]
Distance Learning
A Dozen Will Do It – Class Size and Online Teaching
Derek Newton reports on a study by Lawrence Tomei and Douglas Nelson in which they consider the maximum size of online, hybrid, and on campus classes if we would like them to be taught well […]
Assessment
Moving Beyond Exams
Writing in the World Economic Forum, Conrad Hughes asks whether the pandemic provides an opportunity to disrupt what he refers to as “the social ritual of examination.” With major examination programs cancelled schools have turned […]
Self-Directed Learning
A Time for Big Projects
For those of us interested in self-directed learning and project-based learning, the closing of schools due to the pandemic provides an ideal opportunity for students to engage in major projects. Such conditions are a test […]
Learning Settings
Grounds for Play and Learning
In a report in the World Economic Forum, Matluba Kahn discusses a project to transform an elementary school lot in Bangladesh into an active playground for both recreation and learning. The project is interesting both […]
Data Analytics Research
Surveillance Infrastructure – Time to Dismantle?
Writing in Medium, Jathan Sadowski argues that now is the time to begin dismantling the extensive infrastructure of surveillance that has grown up in recent years. This would include genuine efforts to stop the use […]
Assessment
Open Book Exams
Following the lead of Delhi University, the Aligarh Muslim University has decided that all end of term exams will be online and open book in light of the pandemic that closed the campus. This move […]
Learning Settings
Past and Future Office
Writing in the Economist, Catherine Nixley considers the Death of the Office as a possible result of the Covid 19 pandemic. She traces the office from its beginnings in London at the East India Company […]
Data Analytics Research
Employee Data Under Siege
While there has been a good deal of attention on consumer data and the rights of consumers to know what data is being collected about them and how it is being used, there has been […]