A guide to the communication platforms available for higher educators.

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Our team’s trip to Portland for SIGCSE 2020 went awry when Oregon Governor Kate Brown banned gatherings of more than 250 people, canceling the conference the same day it began. We spent the rest of our unexpectedly short time in Portland working out of coffee shops and a WeWork. Fortunately, it’s easy to communicate with team members at your home base in New York City when your startup is building a teaching and learning tool — the features that you need for remote communication and collaboration are inherent in the technology.

Online, we saw other universities were following U. of Washington’s lead by canceling in-person classes. We began to discuss how Campuswire could help professors while they transitioned to remote instruction, ultimately deciding to offer our recently-released Pro tools at no charge for the remainder of the Spring term.

But, having worked closely with professors, we know that different people need different types of EdTech to optimize their instruction. We wanted to highlight the other excellent tools available to professors as they move their classes online. So, we used social media to crowd-source a list of recommendations made by other higher ed instructors.

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