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

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. "

"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. "

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.