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FAVBs are the latest design trend for higher education homepages, but what purpose do they serve for course design?

Visit a higher education website. Yes, right now. Pick and choose your local, favorite, or dream institution. Chances are, their website has a singular digital design element front and center alongside its logo, donation links, and rankings – the full-width, auto-playing video background (FAVB).

One of my co-leads for DrupalCon Seattle’s Higher-Education Summit proposed a simple question that revamped our event’s structure: “In a perfect world, what and how could we change our event?”. Driving that premise was a desire to bring authentic, realistic, and tangible feedback and knowledge for our attendees by our attendees – to use the summit’s physical co-locating of university contacts across the world to pass along knowledge, insights, and best-practices in the moment. That’s where the Solution Room succeeded beyond our expectations.