Welcome to Twitch U: Pandemic has some profs streaming lectures on gaming platform
Sep 18th, 2020
Welcome to Twitch U: Pandemic has some profs streaming lectures on gaming platform
David Churchill is just 20 minutes into his first lecture of the semester at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and students are already expressing their enthusiasm.
Not with lit-up eyes or hands waving in the air but with a series of emojis: PogChamp emote, LuL emote, PogChamp emote.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, few of the university's fall semester courses will be in person. There is a university-approved video lecture system, but for his two courses in the computer science department, Churchill is experimenting with an online streaming platform used mainly by gamers.