Educators

As you settle into remote teaching and learning, we’re devoting this episode of What’s New in EDU to sharing free resources that can support you as you lead virtual lessons, foster collaboration and engagement, and focus on accessibility.

Teachers are on the frontlines of enabling the sudden shift to remote learning. Within a matter of weeks, educators have had to quickly adapt their engaging, aligned, in-person lessons into online learning for their students.

During this time of a worldwide jump into distance learning, ensuring that all students of all abilities can access tools and content is more important than ever.

For many schools around the world, the shift to remote learning has understandably been an enormous transition with serious challenges along the way.

For weeks now, students and teachers have been settling into the uncharted routine of distance learning. Today I want to thank all of the educators who are connecting classrooms and classmates together in the sudden shift to remote learning.

Last month, we announced several learning management system (LMS) integrations that make it easier for schools and universities to create a Microsoft Teams meeting from within their LMS.

From time to time, we feature stories about Changemakers, as we call them, educators who are making a difference in the lives of students around the world. Today’s post was written by Nancy Zuckerbrod, a Washington D.C.

Over the last few weeks, schools have been working tirelessly to enable distance learning for their students and faculty.

The world is built for people with sight. Most people rely on their vision to help them throughout the day, from cooking to reading to walking around. However, for people who have lost their sight or whose vision has become impaired, everyday tasks are harder.

Microsoft Education has teamed up with BBC Learning and BBC World Service to bring you and your students an engaging global media literacy program that will help teach students how to be good consumers of the news and raise their awareness about global issues.

From time to time, we feature guest blogs from educators who are making a difference in the lives of young people and who are eager to share their success with the Microsoft Education community.

We know that many schools and universities already use learning management systems (LMS) to manage assignments and content for their courses, but sometimes struggle to keep remote students connected as a class.