The VCR team had planned to launch a two-month pilot of Zoom at Georgia Tech last October. “Many of our students, faculty, and staff have participated in Zoom meetings during and even before the pandemic, which we anticipate will facilitate adoption at Georgia Tech.”
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“Not only did Zoom, to a large extent, meet our committee’s criteria, but it is also one of the most widely used video collaboration tools,” said Yakut Gazi, Ph.D., associate dean for Learning Systems at Georgia Tech Professional Education.
“The committee spent a great deal of time articulating these criteria so that we could, as objectively as possible, evaluate a number of options and eventually recommend a solution for Georgia Tech.” “It was critically important to us that we start our selection process with an examination of our needs from a collaboration, teaching, and learning perspective,” said Daren Hubbard, Georgia Tech vice president of Information Technology and chief information officer. Facilitate effective collaboration and communication across the Institute.Support virtual classrooms and meetings of multiple sizes.Enable secure, reliable, and flexible course delivery and student learning.The committee, comprised of members from each division and College, along with students and technology representatives, identified requirements and evaluated possible solutions on their ability to: With the Institute’s existing agreement with BlueJeans set to expire at the end of the spring semester - and the sunset of the WebEx platform in December 2021* - the Video Collaboration Review (VCR) team formed in early 2021 to explore new video collaboration platforms that meet the academic and operational needs of students, faculty, and staff. The announcement comes after an almost yearlong effort to evaluate and introduce a new videoconferencing solution for academic course delivery and collaboration. Georgia Tech will begin a soft launch of the Zoom video collaboration platform beginning Monday, Feb.