Zoom in (but fasten your seatbelt)
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2020-08-17
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International Conference for Media in Education 2020 (iCoME)
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The year 2020 has presented many challenges, not the least of which is the COVID-19 pandemic forcing schools to temporarily close for the spring semester. Along with the instant need for students to obtain computers and internet service was the faculty's hasty retooling of content delivery and assessment into an online format. Video tools – especially Zoom – became the method of choice for this unscripted and unexpected online learning due to the relative ease of use, similarity to face-to-face lecturing, and the fact that the basic service is free. Unfortunately, Zoom was not ready for the onslaught, and security issues and other problems were discovered; over the course of many weeks, the owners of Zoom were forced to make changes as each new problem emerged. The result of the research and analysis points to the use of Zoom and other video tools as an adequate stop-gap measure for online learning, but with the caveat that faculty need to be aware of the flaws and understand how to best mitigate them.
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Teleconferencing, Webinars, Online Teaching, Online Security, Zoombombing, Deepfakes, Zoom
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Fudge, T., & Williams, L. (2020, August). Zoom in (but fasten your seatbelt). International Conference for Media in Education (iCoME) 2020: Diversity Education in ICT Advanced Society, Kobe, Japan (online). pp. 195-201. https://icome.education/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/icome2020_programproceedings_final_v2.pdf