On March 12 and 13, 2020, the University of Michigan cancelled class to prepare the whole campus for emergency remote teaching starting on March 16. In that brief interim, the institution made Zoom ...

When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...

What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

This past quarter, students and faculty alike noticed that lectures were constantly interrupted by a cacophony of coughing from students. In previous years, such coughing could be written off as the ...

Faculty Senate members gathered for senate assembly at the Ruthven G. Building Monday afternoon. Dan Kim/Daily. Buy this photo. The Senate Assembly met Monday afternoon in the Alexander G. Ruthven ...

There are lots of reasons why you might want to podcast your lectures. You might be teaching an online class or providing supplementary lecture material for students in one of your regular ...

My wife is about to start nursing school. She has her associates in medical science but is about to start the real deal. One of her many obstacles is that she has to drive over an hour to get to ...

Note: If you have received a Faculty Notification Letter (FNL) for this section of your course, contact Student Disability Services for required WebEx accommodations. Webex makes it easy to ...

It’s fine for faculty to choose to record lectures for students, but systems more or less foisted on them from the top down pose serious threats to academic freedom, argues Michael Schwalbe. When I ...

Anyone recording college lectures with a PC and Mic? My daughter is a Freshman this year and is needing to record some of her lectures with a PC. The professors don't all allow phones to be out in ...