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Is Learning on Zoom the Same as In Person? Not to Your Brain

From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel

September 15, 2020·24:15

Episode summary

In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: At this point the Zoom call has almost come to define learning and working in the age of COVID-19. A few months ago, people began realizing that all these video calls were making them tired—exhausted even—more so than a day of in-person class or all-day meetings. The phenomena even has a name: Zoom fatigue.

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At this point the Zoom call has almost come to define learning and working in the age of COVID-19. A few months ago, people began realizing that all these video calls were making them tired—exhausted even—more so than a day of in-person class or all-day meetings. The phenomena even has a name: Zoom fatigue. And it’s backed by some pretty interesting brain science.