Academica expands to meet demand as necessary, thanks to Amazon Web Services’ elastic cloud. It has provided a consistent, reliable service since it became Wayne State’s only portal. The communication feature lines up with a push for more engagement across higher ed. Students performance is said to increase with engagement with their institutions.
In keeping with this theory, instructors are experimenting with in-class communication tools that let students answer each other’s questions in real-time and give faculty insights into content that should be reviewed or taught differently in the future.
