{"id":6182,"date":"2020-04-01T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T07:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2020-04-01T08:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T07:25:17","slug":"staff-cooperation-is-the-byword-in-lund-university-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/uncategorised\/staff-cooperation-is-the-byword-in-lund-university-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff cooperation is the byword in  Lund University, Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lund\nUniversity (Sweden) has always been a place where, to a rather large extent,\nthe different faculties make their own decisions. One positive effect of the new\ncorona virus hitting us was us being forced to cooperate more than before in\norder to create common resources for all staff and students, and fast at that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As most\nother universities, Lund uses several systems for teaching and meeting online,\nand creating, publishing, and sharing video, such as Zoom, Canvas, Teams,\nConferences, Studio (Canvas\u2019 own video tool), and LUplay (Kaltura). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When two\nweeks ago all universities in Sweden were forced to move their teaching online,\nthe Canvas project team quickly created two online \u201cCovid-19 courses\u201d open to\nall, one in Swedish and one in English. At the same time, a Zoom room was set\nup, staffed weekdays between 8am and 5pm, with the possibility for teaching\nstaff to drop in and ask any questions related to the systems, be it technical\nor pedagogical ones. In addition, recurring online drop-in workshops were\ncreated in Zoom, to offer basic introductions in the different systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To get a\npicture of staff and students moving from campus-based to online courses and\nmeetings, here are some statistics: Two weeks ago, on March 13, Lund University\nhad 3320 registered Zoom users (staff and students) and 318 meetings (\u201cmeeting\u201d\ncovering teaching as well as meeting). NORDUnet, the Nordic universities\nnetwork, was quick to restructure the system capacity, and rented some space in\nAmazon\u2019s newly built server hall in Stockholm, thus augmenting the capacity of\nZoom on the 16<sup>th<\/sup> of March from 9&nbsp;000 to 125&nbsp;000\nsimultaneous users. That was doubled the following week to 250&nbsp;000. On\nMarch 26, we counted 9505 registered users, and 1889 meetings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our video systems display a similar pattern; in a short period of time, teachers have found their way to Studio and LUplay and uploaded huge quantities of video to their online classes on our leading learning platforms. The best part of this whole Corona-induced shift to going online is that the staff\u2019s positive, eager, and let\u2019s-do-this-together-attitude has been a true source of energy for all of us involved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"164\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2020\/04\/nicolette_cropped.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6184\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Nicolette Karst, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">Lund University, Sweden <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lund University (Sweden) has always been a place where, to a rather large extent, the different faculties make their own decisions. One positive effect of the new corona virus hitting us was us being forced to cooperate more than before in order to create common resources for all staff and students, and fast at that! 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