As someone who teaches literature and writing, I understood long before COVID-19 that the success of a class depends on turning a group of strangers into a learning community. When students get ...

It’s hard for instructors not to see the chat function of Zoom as a distraction from the main event: their lecture. While many instructors have posted their thoughts about the chat on their blogs, ...

At this point in the semester, many of us can say that “Zoom fatigue” is getting the best of us. Whether it’s cameras on or cameras off, breakout rooms or a full-blown lecture, having class over Zoom ...

Zoom was never created to be a consumer product. Nonetheless, the video-conferencing company’s accessibility made it the answer to every social situation threatened by the pandemic, from happy hours ...