In an interview with Natasa Meli, SACAP’s Head of Online Campus, she discusses how resistance to online learning has changed.
For the past few decades, it has been noted that one of the biggest problems of education in the age of disruption is that it has stubbornly resisted being disrupted.
It had the advantage of an already well-established Online Campus with an experienced online educator component of its faculty and proven tech infrastructure. Educators from the physical campuses were trained, and students were enabled with data packages. It was a remarkably agile response in a notoriously slow-moving sector.
Natasa points out beyond ensuring continuity of education, many more South Africans now have a growing awareness of the other benefits of online education. ● The relative flexibility that online education affords means that any student, regardless of life-stage, can manage their schedules to accommodate full- or part-time work commitments, thereby minimising student debt.Perhaps, the greatest asset that online education has to offer is related to its ‘newness’. It’s a field of education uniquely fashioned by its times, and therefore freer of the traditional constrictors that have caused such stagnation in education.
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