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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

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Pey Kin-Leong, Singapore University of Technology and Design

The PIE News

Singapore University of Technology and Design, the island-nation’s fourth public university, has embarked on a new project to reinvent blended learning. When Singapore entered its first lockdown in April 2020, SUTD – like institutions around the world – was forced to move its lessons online. pic.twitter.com/zP5rbyKRDw.

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Higher Education, Technology, and A Growing Social Anxiety

Higher Education Inquirer

The Era We Are In We are living in a neoliberal/libertarian era filled with technological change, emotional change, and behavioral change. We are simultaneously moving forward with technology and backward with human values and principles. We also have lives made more sedentary and solitary by technology.

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How to Approach Higher Ed’s Hybrid Cloud Migration

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Higher education has a reputation for being slow to embrace some of the technological advancements that other industries might jump at the chance to adopt. Although the events of 2020 did cause some institutions to rapidly escalate their cloud adoption, today’s IT leaders are more cautious with which systems and…

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The pandemic may have ended but the demand for edtech is growing

University Business

Colleges didn’t choose but were forced to overcome barriers to instruction through innovative educational technology solutions with little to no turnaround as students returned home for remote learning. to nearly $78 billion in 2020. According to an August 2021 report from Fortune Business Insights, the market size grew by 9.9%

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Technology can keep on going 24/7 – we aren’t meant to!?

HEPI

Now I am no scientist, as will become evident, but technology is a wonderful thing – from the advent of the television in the late 1920s, and the CT scan in the 1970s, to the camera phone in the 2000s. Then 2020 arrived. Forgotten Books: London The post Technology can keep on going 24/7 – we aren’t meant to! Parker Follet, M.

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How Asynchronous Learning Can Spur Student Success

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

According to data from EDUCAUSE’s “2022 Students and Technology Report: Rebalancing the Student Experience,” in 2020, 35 percent of students said they preferred completely face-to-face learning, and just 5 percent said they would opt for completely online experiences. The way students learn has fundamentally changed.

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