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Instructional Technology

How about using a digital avatar on a virtual campus?

If video chats have gotten you through COVID and online learning so far, you might consider creating a digital avatar to meet virtually with colleagues or teach remote classes.

4 tech strategies for successful hybrid learning

A combination of tech tools is needed for distance learning, from video streaming and web conferencing to recorded video.

How one university is reopening research labs safely

By mid-summer, the University of Rochester had reopened about 140 lab spaces, allowing about 675 researchers to go back to work.

4 COVID-era strategies for reopening facilities, including ‘bubbles’

Family bubbles,’ waiting rooms and priority elevator access are a few ways to prevent COVID’s spread as colleges and universities reopen for the fall semester.

How to teach digital literacy during the COVID pandemic

College libraries, already a key source of digital literacy lessons, are finding new ways to offer guidance to students as online learning continues into the fall. 

Bowdoin College connects students with iPads, Wi-Fi

Accessibility and equity in online learning will get a major boost from Bowdoin College's iPad and Wi-Fi as first-year students and transfers are invited back to campus.

Mon Jul 27th, 2020

Cal State LA’s faculty ready to engage students virtually

Backed by a Summer Institute program that the university and others across the CSU system have put in place, educators are prepared to deliver remote instruction this fall.
Fri Jul 24th, 2020

What is the future of virtual reality with esports on campus?

Solutions provider and former esports coach Josh Knutson discusses the potential for VR to take off in competitive gaming programs and some of the barriers holding it back.
Tue Jul 14th, 2020

Faculty actually liked online learning (mostly), survey finds

Instructors want more professional development in online learning, and said student engagement, along with access and equity concerns, were the biggest challenges
Thu Jul 9th, 2020

How colleges seek equity in virtual and physical design

Colleges and universities can create a greater sense of equity and diversity by rethinking the design of physical and virtual spaces, a panel of higher education leaders said this week.
Thu Jul 9th, 2020

How campuses keep research going during the COVID summer

The continuing coronavirus outbreak has not shut down all undergraduate summer research on campus—Hope College in Michigan is one example.
Wed Jul 8th, 2020