The Future of Virtual Classrooms with BigBlueButton

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Brief Abstract

BigBlueButton focuses on one goal: providing teachers and students the most learner-centric virtual classroom in the world. This presentation showcases some of the amazing adoption of BigBlueButton in 2020, how it enabled schools world-wide to quickly move online, and the upcoming features planned in 2021 for teachers.

Presenters

Lead Presenter: Fred Dixon, Blindside Networks

Fred Dixon is the project manager for BigBlueButton, an open source web conferencing system for online learning. The goal of the project is to enable remote students to have a high-quality online learning experience. Fred also moonlights as the CEO of Blindside Networks.

Extended Abstract

BigBlueButton is an open source virtual classroom built by a global community of teachers and developers. BigBlueButton is built into Moodle Cloud, Canvas, Schoology, Sakai, and D2L as the default virtual classroom. What's more, because it's open source, it was adopted by many schools world-wide during the Covid-19 pandemic. This presentation showcases examples of that adoption, how it helped teachers and students hold effective online classes, and some of the features we've got planned on the road map for 2021. The BigBlueButton project is managed by Blindside Networks.