Why has higher education decided on Zoom?
Bryan Alexander,
Mar 29, 2022
This is an interesting list of reasons in its own right, and well worth a read. But at the same time it feels to me like an example of how you can ask a question of fifty or so well-informed people and still not really land on the right answer. From where I sit, there was one overwhelming reason for Zoom's success: anyone could use it without having to be logged into an institutional network. You could set up short meetings for free or a quite small monthly fee that even people like me can afford. You could, in other words, use it from home. Users didn't actually have to log in at all! Compare with the cost, login and domain nightmares we may still experience with alternatives from Google, Microsoft, Blackboard and the rest, and you can see why nobody really wants to let go of Zoom.
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