Online education won’t replace the in-person variety, but will complement it, says the Financial Times’ Simon Kuper.
Most academics I heard from aren’t enjoying teaching online. They plunged into the global experiment untrained, to a backdrop of children at home, poor Wi-Fi and lockdown anxiety.
These accounts fit the long-term record of online education: Though it has grown, dropout rates remain high. Many “left-behind” adults everywhere would love to learn from home, get qualifications and change their lives, especially if the pandemic has left them jobless.We need more adult learners. Their numbers in the UK almost halved between 2004 and 2016, write Andrew Scott and Lynda Gratton in The New Long Life.
He proposes a model in which some students spend a month on campus, then months studying from home, before returning to campus for the final weeks. That would allow universities to teach multiple cohorts a year, cutting tuition costs. Zoom’s “chat” function can get shy students talking. The added value of a classroom is interaction, so anything that isn’t interactive should be done outside class.
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