This article is part of the guide The EdSurge Podcast. Aaron Ansuini had a question for the professor teaching his online course at Concordia University, in Montreal, so he decided to shoot him an email. He had been enjoying the video lectures by the professor, François-Marc Gagnon, and Ansuini searched online for his email address. What he found instead was an obituary for the professor, who passed away almost two years ago. âI thought at first that just coincidentally there was some other prof who had passed away with the same nameâlike, oh, thatâs very odd,â he remembers. Then it sunk in that the professor he thought was teaching him was no longer around.