How do you deliver a virtual classroom at scale across an entire province?
Joni Sharkey, Director of EdTech Platform Services at Contact North, shares how they support BigBlueButton across Ontario's public colleges, universities, Indigenous institutes, and training partners —
Virtual classroom trusted by millions of educators to deliver effective online classes. BigBlueButton is global open source project (localized in 55 languages).
- What does it take to build software alongside AI agents — on a codebase that's evolved for over a decade? Core developers Tainan Felipe and Ramón Souza of iMDT share honest lessons in "Code as a Shared Language: Preparing BigBlueButton for Human-AI Collaboration" — how to move
- Every session in BigBlueButton rests on its real-time media stack. So where is that foundation headed? Paulo Lanzarin of Mconf, who has driven BigBlueButton's real-time communication for nearly a decade, covers the move to LiveKit and what's next in "BigBlueButton's Real-Time
- Why does open-source software matter for higher education — and what does it take to sustain it? Timo Nogueira Brockmeyer of virtUOS at Osnabrück University, a longtime organizer of the German BigBlueButton community, makes the case in "The Role of Open Source Software in Higher
- What if your virtual classroom lived natively inside your CMS — instead of being bolted on as an external tool? Christian Zange, Managing Director at think modular, presents BigBlueButton NG in "BigBlueButton for Drupal 10 & 11: Deep Native Integration of BigBlueButton into

