Member QuickTalk | When Tech Goes Down: Teaching & Learning Continuity After the Instructure Incident

As institutions continue to assess the implications of the recent Instructure incident, many teaching and learning professionals are confronting a broader and increasingly urgent question: What happens when the digital infrastructure of teaching becomes unavailable? While conversations about the incident have understandably focused on privacy, cybersecurity, and vendor risk, this moment also highlights the deep instructional dependency institutions now have on learning technologies. This QuickTalk will move beyond updates about this specific incident to explore how institutions are responding operationally and pedagogically when critical systems become unavailable.

QuickTalk Moderators

Kim Arnold

Director, Teaching & Learning Program, EDUCAUSE
Tom Cavanagh

Vice Provost for Digital Learning, University of Central Florida
Ben Hellar

Manager, Data Empowered Learning, The Pennsylvania State University
Gloria Niles

Chief Academic Technology Innovation Officer, University of Hawaii System Office
Olena Zhadko

Interim University Executive Director, City University of New York