Zoom Video and Cisco offer deals to colleges as they seek to battle competition to move classes online.
As more colleges move to hold remote classes amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. are among tech companies offering deals to attract institutions looking to offer online lessons.
Don’t miss: Student-loan borrowers could get a temporary break on payments during coronavirus pandemic, Mnuchin says Read: This stock has scored the biggest boost from the coronavirus outbreak — but the company has been out of business for years 2U is also seeing increased interest in its services as schools scramble to move traditional classes online, Paucek said. The company operates online-degree programs for not-for-profit universities, and it has been in the midst of migrating in-person “sister” programs onto the infrastructure that already supports these schools’ online equivalents. It is also transitioning physical boot-camp programs to the web.
Ronda Black, the IT program director at Montana State University’s Gallatin College, has been using Cisco’s educational Webex product in her classrooms since before the outbreak and she’s currently helping her colleagues become acquainted with the platform now that the coronavirus has moved classes online.
The introduction of video tools into educational settings raises questions about data collection and user privacy. Zoom’s personal-data policy discloses that the company may gather information including a user’s name, address, email address, and phone number. Cisco collects similar information.
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