As the 2020 to 2021 school year gets underway – both at the K through 12 and college level – many students find themselves attending online classes via Zoom or similar teleconferencing platforms.

There are many methods to bring online professors and students together in real time. They include chat rooms with just text, video, voice conferencing and virtual worlds such as Second Life. A ...

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During the pandemic, schools from elementary to college took classes online by necessity. But 5 years later, a number of college students are still taking at least some of their classes remotely, even ...