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She wowed the world with her poetry at President Joe Biden's inauguration. But we first introduced you to Amanda Gorman back in 2017 - when she was just 19 and an OZY Genius Award winner. Read on for our original story. Every year, OZY gives ten college students the opportunity to pursue their outstanding ideas and envisioned innovations with grants of up to $10,000. The OZY Genius Awards aims to support and celebrate the next Albert Einstein, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey or Wendy Kopp, as they write groundbreaking books, film thought-provoking documentaries, launch tomorrow's industry-disrupting companies, or create the next game-changing social movements. Meet one of our 2017 recipients, Amanda Gorman.

"Professor Michael Sankey - Griffith University"

"At this point the Zoom call has almost come to define learning and working in the age of COVID-19. But a few months ago, people began realizing that all these video calls were making them tired-exhausted even-more so than a day of in-person class or all-day meetings. The phenomena even has a name: Zoom fatigue. And it's backed by some pretty interesting brain science. "

"Of all the behaviors necessitated by the pandemic-wearing face masks, ordering takeout or groceries online, working from home-only one has taken over the lexicon, serving variously as a verb, adjective or noun: Zooming. "

"As online learning becomes a more common model for higher education courses, institutions and instructors should investigate the benefits of including both synchronous and asynchronous elements in online learning to maximize the benefits of both these environments." Bichronous? This is a new one to me. Interesting disucssion around why this term is so relevant to online learning and teaching today.

Gamification and virtual simulation possibilities with new H5P branching scenario tool

As educators who deliver online courses in a teacher education program, we wanted to find the most effective ways to facilitate online learning and teaching. We collected survey data and conducted interviews with three hundred university students about how they engaged with their online courses and found that, above all else, teachers help students feel connected and supported in their online studies and are essential to students' emotional engagement.

Patter shares a few useful points on how to run a tweetchat

Collated by Dr Tony Bates This is just a selection, of course, with a particular focus on North America, and will be added to as new reports emerge. They are roughly in sequential order of the date of publication, although not all full dates were available.

"Join A/Prof. Chie Adachi (Director, Digital Learning), A/Prof. Marcus O'Donnell (Director, Cloud Learning Futures), Dr Jo Elliott (Lecturer, Digital Learning Innovation) and Joan Sutherland (Senior Educational Developer) as they capture, share and celebrate the stories of teaching staff who share their personal experiences and provide insights into what is needed to innovate in the digital learning space. These insights into what they have learnt along the way, what has worked, and what they are doing to further enhance the teaching and learning experience at Deakin can influence your teaching practice. Topics range from the power of social media during COVID-19 through to facilitating connection through digital polling in the online space. "

Relevant online short course focused on flipped learning and flipping the classroom.

Digital first pedagogical guru Dr Kate Davis shares how she keeps up to date with online news and resources for higher education.

Excellent overview of synchronous and asynchronous learning modes and when to use each in higher education and beyond.

The global pandemic has pushed educators around the world to a transformative moment for online learning. Since February 2020, an unprecedented number of teachers, students, and parents have become exposed to a new mode of teaching. Teachers did not have the luxury of options, as online education came towards them, shouting "Ready or not, here I come!" The transformation is deep and wide: All levels of teaching, from pre-k classes to doctoral programs, moved to the cloud. Every discipline, from physics to physical education, from chemistry to creative writing, has a chance to test their limits and potentials in the new modality of teaching.

USQ-based panel discussing education and COVID-19 influences. Good example of the use of Voicethread for asynchronous discussion.

George Veletsianos shares his insight into online learning and course design.