An undeniable fact of online teaching: Instructors now must compete with the entire Internet for their students’ attention during virtual classes. As any parent can tell you, it’s a daunting task. Here are eight tips for keeping students engaged in a virtual or hybrid class format.

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It feels like destiny (but it’s mostly just good business): streaming and recorded video coming together to create a real-time content event that combines the immediacy of streaming with the refinement of well-edited video.

It’s true that anybody with a smartphone can make and publish a video. But if you want that video to promote your business, it’s not so simple. Just shooting it and posting it on your social media accounts probably won’t accomplish much. If you’re going to invest the time and money, you probably want more from your video.

Just three years after its founding, Pushkin Industries has become an audio-storytelling powerhouse, with an arsenal of podcasts and audiobooks built around household-name authors like Malcom Gladwell (Revisionist History), Michael Lewis (Against the Rules), and Ibram X. Kendi (Be Antiracist).

It’s not hard to talk yourself into launching a podcast these days — including a podcast for your team at work. There are plenty of good reasons to do it and many examples of companies that have used podcasts to elevate their internal communications and inspire their workforce.