Mark Naison, 73, had just days to move online his decades-old class, a history of music from rock ’n’ roll to hip-hop. He wasn't sure how to preserve the raucous spirit of the course, but he had an ...

In the last 14 months, we’ve had to get creative about finding new ways to be together and learn new things. Those of us lucky enough to have a strong internet connection and a working computer have ...

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, ...

It’s a brave new world during these days of quarantine, and for the technology-challenged among us, it can be daunting to keep up. If you’re willing to learn a few basics, there’s a world of free and ...

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 ...

The friendly greeting from the receptionist. The smile and nod to familiar faces in your weekly bootcamp. The collective huff when an instructor shouts out another round of burpees. Even for those of ...

ALBANY (WRGB ) - Video chatting and online meetings have become the norm, during the Coronavirus pandemic. But now the FBI is warning about hackers. They're called Zoom-bombers. Like photo-bombing, ...

Even working from home isn’t safe! Hackers have been hijacking video conferences and online classrooms on the popular software Zoom, in a frightening trend emerging amid the coronavirus pandemic, the ...