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Top Hat is launching a version of its program that will assist faculty in embedding active learning into their remote classes. The recently announced Top Hat Basic will be available free to students and professors in time for the fall 2020 semester, the company said. Campus Technology
The post Free Top Hat Basic Allows for Live Streaming and Recording of Class first appeared on Course Strat.Zoom Video Communications, Inc. has announced it will open a research and development (R&D) office in Pittsburgh, joining Phoenix as the two locations selected by the company. Although a physical location hasn’t been determined yet, the company says it will seek to open its office near Carnegie Mellon University’s campus to capitalize on the university’s […]
The post Zoom to Open New R&D Office Near Carnegie Mellon first appeared on Course Strat.With the increasing availability of synchronous video-based breakout rooms within online courses, there is a growing need to understand how to best leverage this technology for enhanced online education. To help address this challenge, this paper reports on a case study that explored student activity within online video-based breakout rooms via a Structured Paired Activity […]
The post Using Structured Pair Activities in a Distributed Online Breakout Room first appeared on Course Strat.Students attending Indiana University are now able to combine the collaborative benefits of a traditional classroom education with the ease of access that comes with distance learning, through video conferencing technology. edscooop
The post At Indiana U., video platform blends traditional and distance education first appeared on Course Strat.Videoconferencing as a learning tool has been widely used among educators and learners in order to induce effective communication between learners and teachers or learners and their peers, especially when face-to-face means are not possible. Different types of videoconferencing platforms or systems have emerged for use in today’s higher education institutions. Previous research has focused […]
The post A Scoping Review of Videoconferencing Systems in Higher Education first appeared on Course Strat.US universities that seek the benefits of study-abroad programmes without the forbidding costs are increasingly turning to “virtual” foreign exchanges involving individual students and entire classrooms. Although the underlying idea is not new, improvements in technology and a growing recognition of the value of virtual exchanges have fuelled adoption across US campuses in just the past year […]
The post Virtual exchanges promise study-abroad experience for the masses first appeared on Course Strat.This paper presents findings of an institutional case study investigating how students and lecturers experienced a new opt-out, fully integrated lecture-recording system which enabled audio and presentation screen capture. The study’s focus is on how ‘traditional’ students (generally characterised as young, enrolled full-time and attending classes on campus) engaged with lecture-recording and how lecturers’ experiences […]
The post Lecture-recording technology in higher education: Exploring lecturer and student views across the disciplines first appeared on Course Strat.The ML Learning initiative is built around a cohort of learning innovators from across the diverse Media Lab groups. We explores learning across many dimensions, ranging from neurons to nations, from early childhood to lifelong scholarship, and from human creativity to machine intelligence. In addition to creating tools and models, the initiative provides non-profit and […]
The post MIT Media Lab Learning Initiative first appeared on Course Strat.Altia Systems works with more than 130 universities nationwide. Edscoop
The post New digital video technology improves engagement ’10 times’ first appeared on Course Strat.