Case Study: University of Maryland achieves engaging, face-to-face-style remote teaching with Vibe

University of Maryland - Customer Case Study

Dr. Henry Silverman, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, faced cancelled travel and in-person workshops due to COVID-19 and needed a way to replicate classroom energy and engagement online. Rather than rely on Zoom alone, he searched for a digital interactive whiteboard and adopted the Vibe board from Vibe to maintain visual presence and active participation in his graduate courses and international training.

Vibe provided an interactive digital whiteboard with annotation, multi-page workspaces and video-conferencing integration that Dr. Silverman uses with Zoom breakout rooms, polling, and recorded sessions for different time zones. The solution made setup easy, increased student engagement (post-class feedback included “I felt like it was a face-to-face lecture”), improved real-time collaboration and annotation, and enabled him to continue multi-day virtual workshops in the Middle East and Africa.

University of Maryland

Henry Silverman

Professor of Medicine