These 3 key factors can help reshape higher-ed after COVID-19 – World Economic Forum
- COVID halted most in-person classes this year and the year ahead could bring more uncertainty.
- Educators can consider the new mindsets needed to build a resilient but engaging system that outlasts the pandemic – and helps update the concept of a classic college education.
Remote courses have been available from prestigious schools and universities for years, but it took COVID-19 to pull all degree-granting institutions fully online. More changes could still be on the horizon as the pandemic continues to disrupt institutions around the world. While some schools are planning to open up their classrooms this fall, others such Cambridge University and the those in the California State University system have closed their campuses to focus on online lectures only for the next semester.
Such uncertainty has prompted students and professors to wonder how the college experience will transform further as the pandemic rages on. Online experiences – often indistinct across schools – had some wondering how traditional universities with sometimes high tuitions could compete in the longer term if on-campus learning was disrupted further.