STEPHEN LU:
[MUSIC] I research
innovation.
I teach innovation.
I truly believe diversity,
specifically cultural diversity,
is the best inspiration
for any innovation.
I started iPodia to develop
innovative technology
with new pedagogy to
transform higher education from
lecture by teacher to
collaboration between students.
YANNIS YORTSOS:
An important vision of the
Viterbi School of Engineering
is to engineer a better
world for our humanity.
STEPHEN LU:
We offer many iPodia courses
to students in the iPodia lines,
which is now included
in 14 university
and four different continents.
YANNIS YORTSOS:
Bringing all these
cultures together from
different parts of
the world enriches
the solution of various problems
and enriches the way
by which people think.
STEPHEN LU:
One reason we choose Teams is
because of our desire to have
a hybrid learning environment.
Let's begin tonight's class.
We are moving to Week number 8.
The whole idea of using
Microsoft Teams is to
use the native function
of collaboration so
that we can really
change education to become
collaborative learning.
BINH TRAN:
We're really rethinking
how we design
these classrooms
and also make them more
accessible to
students inside and
outside of the normal,
traditional classroom time.
CEYDAN KAYA:
How Teams is structured,
I think it really helps me
complete projects with
students all across the world,
and it also allows me to be in
more of a hands-on classroom
type of experience.
STEPHEN LU:
When we deploy a class
onto Microsoft Teams,
immediately, we're able
to take advantage of
the structure of channel and
different kind of groups.
Can I have a Room number 4?
What we like about Microsoft
Teams is the way you
can actually put different
people in person
or online into one
common environment
the together mode, and
this kind of shared presence
completely change
the collaboration.
Doing the large class,
we also have students who
meet in a small
breakout room in Teams.
Tonight, we have
six breakout rooms.
The point is not just use Teams
to replicate what we've been
doing in the classroom,
but use Teams to explore
something new beyond what
we could have done before.
After the live class,
I will also be able to
log into Teams to look
at all their submission from
different Teams cohort exercise
and also give them grading.
CEYDAN KAYA:
I use Teams
pretty much every single day.
I know exactly when
everything is due,
I know where to submit my
projects and my assignments.
NICK BORTOLON:
Microsoft Teams has helped me
succeed in the class
by really making it easy and
streamlined to also understand
when due dates
might be coming up
to make sure that
you're staying up
on that 24/7 learning cycle.
BINH TRAN:
Microsoft Teams is
quite a seamless integration.
Students have just
more instant access
to each other,
and to their groups,
and to their class
than ever before.
STEPHEN LU:
The power of interaction,
the power of debating
with each other,
it becomes so real.
I'm very hopeful that
by connecting students
in the classroom,
we're able to build
a better world.
This will help to realize
the iPodia vision,
which is learning together
for a better world. [MUSIC]