How our One Button Studio is Advancing Online Learning

ASU BIOS has launched a new One Button Studio, now in operation and available to our faculty and professors, with the ability to engage in and teach lectures remotely, producing high-quality video and sound content for students at ASU and around the world

“No matter where you live, oceans play a role in your life.” Professor at ASU’s School of Ocean Futures, and Associate Scientist with ASU BIOS, Amy Maas shares a snippet from her opening lecture of the new course titled, Ocean Futures. Advancements in technology have strengthened online learning platforms, connecting students from around the world, providing exceptional teaching materials from the comfort of the studio.

Maas demonstrated how easily accessible this new technology is as the studio aids in helping produce high-quality content for her Ocean Futures course for undergraduate students. With the successful completion of her synchronous program taught this past Fall, the Ocean Futures course offers a foundation in coastal and marine system science and focuses on the social, economic and equity aspects of ocean stewardship, including the integration of intergenerational and Indigenous values in developing blue economies, coastal and marine protection and management, land-sea interactions, community-based stewardship, the impact of fisheries on ocean health, and coral reef restoration. Students learn the processes governing global oceans, as well as threats to the ecosystems and human populations they support. For more information on the Ocean Futures course, click here.

Along with offering this course synchronously, a new online degree will be launching in the Fall of 2025. Through asynchronous learning, students from around the world will be able to enroll on this course through ASU’s virtual educational pathway. Maas shares that “the idea of the One Button Studio is to provide educators the technological support to create high quality sound and video files with a lot of capabilities to move around visual materials in an engaging and seamless way.” Professors can augment learning resources with videos taken from the field, giving students insight into how it would feel to be in the field themselves, allowing faculty to “add course content that pull students into the ecosystems of Bermuda as we build the online degree.” 

Moreover, students enrolled on the online course can apply for summer programs to ASU BIOS for an experiential learning opportunity to get hands-on experience at our global field station. For more information on the variety of student programs offered, visit our website here.

Technology continues to break barriers, connecting classrooms across the globe. Through innovative tools, we can teach and learn from anywhere, creating a universal network of growth, knowledge, and opportunity. The future of teaching is bright, with endless possibilities for innovation and connection.