SUMMARY
The world is facing unprecedented times with the global Covid-19 pandemic. Schools, businesses, and recreational centers' activities are continuously suspended until there is a sharp noticed containment of the deadly disease. With strict social distancing measures in place, it has become imperative for all and sundry to catch up with the paradigm shift to virtual meetings for productivity, sustainability, and job retention. Various technologies have been developed by the IT industry or educational institutes to facilitate remote learning and meetings. This paper introduces the zoom cloud meeting (ZCM) technology as a sophisticated electronic tool to help make a seamless transition from a face-to-face meeting to a virtual meeting and its features that makes it well suited for distance education. This paper uses ACTIONS framework to describe the selection, use, and features of ZCM as educational technology. Relevant and useful recommendations are given to users and intending users.
Keywords: Zoom Cloud Meeting (ZCM), Technology, Remote Learning, Remote Meetings, Zoom.us
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dr. Kehinde Emmanuel ADENEGAN
Corresponding Author
Adenegan is a First class honours degree holder in Mathematics Education from Adeyemi College of Education Ondo (OAU) where he currently lectures. He has Masters and Ph.D degree in Mathematics (Financial Mathematics) from the University of Ibadan. At present, he is the Acting Director of the Adeyemi College Management Information Systems Directorate. He is a recipient of both local, national and international scholarships. Adenegan, a member of the Green initiative, has travelled far and near to four major continents of the world for academic conferences, educational trainings and socio-cultural activities. His research interests are on Mathematics - financial Mathematics, numerical methods and Mathematics Education- Ethno-mathematics, mathematics drama and early child. Reading, listening to radio broadcast, watching movies and surfing the net are his hobbies.
Abiodun Oladoyin Anthony
Co-Author
Abiodun is a graduate of Computer Engineering from the University of Benin, Edo State Nigeria where he had an outstanding performance at masters level in the same field. He worked as Network Engineer at Adeyemi College of Education Management Information Systems Directorate in the beginning of his career and was later appointed a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science in the same Institution. His areas of research interest include machine learning and deep learning with networking and data management as secondary option.