How The Pandemic Could Forever Change Higher Education – Forbes
The historic havoc COVID-19 has wreaked on modern society has been, and continues to be, well documented. It’s time for some good news. These moments of global emergency have the invariable ability to progress technology and the wide-scale implementation of technology, in ways previously not thought possible. With a positive outlook, this crisis can be viewed as a sort of “bypass” button for the application of technological processes and thought patterns that would have taken many more years to adopt in a time of relative peace. One could say that a positive takeaway from disaster is its recurring ability to turn something once viewed as impossible into an accepted aspect of a new reality.
Discussions debating the viability of higher education institutions moving to virtual teaching environments have been taking place for well over a decade. Once COVID-19 was brought stateside and steadily increased its spread, those years’ worth of deliberations, evaluations and concerns were all addressed in a matter of hours. With swift intention, educational institutions nationwide were forced to reevaluate their delivery methods across all aspects of teaching, campus life, extracurricular activities and so much more.