Rapid Response Teaching & Learning in the COVID-19 Crisis with Zoom Video-Conferencing Technology

For those of us in online education, the necessary response to the COVID-19 pandemic was clear, but certainly not simple. Just as we had done for our global campus students, we needed to employ a video-conferencing technology for our on-campus courses as well. This would be a challenge for everyone: students, faculty, seminary staff, and particularly the educational technology team. And like many educational institutions around the world, this transition had to come rapidly in response to this Coronavirus-induced educational crisis. . .

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Design Renaissance – To Be or Not to Be

As we continue our conversation about the use of social media for social change, we come to design thinker, Tristan Harris, whose tagline states that he “helps the technology industry more consciously and ethically shape the human spirit and human potential.” In his TedTalk, “How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day” (April 2017), Harris . . .

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