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"On Tuesday, Yang streamed his class about Twitch on Twitch to an
audience that included his students—and also a crowd of online strangers
that topped out at 90 concurrent viewers. That’s not an enormous
audience by Twitch standards, but it’s much larger than Yang’s usual
room full of aspiring game designers. Yang (who, full disclosure, has
previously taught classes that my partner took) had no choice but to
teach his class online; NYU Game Centre, like a growing number of
universities across the country, has switched over to a remote format in
hopes of helping contain COVID-19, aka the coronavirus. This presents a
novel challenge for many professors, who’ve never had to keep their
students engaged in class while separated by miles of distance. However,
while NYU is mostly using a conferencing app called Zoom to bridge the
pandemic-borne gap, Yang’s students suggested a virtual field trip to
Twitch instead."
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