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New Zoom Competitor Targets Higher Ed Users
Ed-tech start-up Engageli has raised $14.5 million to build a videoconferencing platform. Unlike Zoom, the platform has been purposefully designed with college and university faculty members and students in mind.
Opinion
We Are Underestimating Artificial Intelligence and BCI
We are planning for AI to help universities recruit, oversee adaptive learning and drive intelligent chat boxes, but there is much more ahead in the near future. Are we are underestimating the future of AI connected through a brain-computer interface in education?
Opinion
Disruption, Accessibility and Digital Generational Literacy
COVID-19 has brought global communities together in new ways, and we'll have to collaborate technically and across generations to address all the disruptions we face, writes Lisa M. Coleman.
Faculty Confidence in Online Learning Grows
Survey finds significant increases in professors' confidence in virtual learning and their sense of support from their colleges -- but continuing concerns about equity for underrepresented students.
Innovating and Adapting: Tribal Colleges in the Pandemic
With little internet access and disproportionate impacts from COVID-19, tribal colleges had to redesign everything they do in the spring.
Opinion
Don’t Be a Target for Internet Fraud
Criminals often target colleges for cyberattacks, and DeRionne P. Pollard shares lessons her institution learned firsthand in hopes of helping others prevent or respond to one.
Innovators Seek Zoom University 2.0
Frustrated with Zoom's instructional limitations, developers and entrepreneurs take matters into their own hands.
Zoom Draws a Line
Videoconferencing provider refuses to stream a university event featuring a member of a terrorist organization. Academic freedom hawks see virtual teaching platforms as a new front in the fight for faculty rights.