Tony Bates asks whether "we need to change teaching goals and hence methods when courses are moved online." The question is relevant, he says, because many instructors simply moved to Zoom and kept doing the same things online as they did offline. He sets this discussion within a lengthy discussion of curricular and implementation changes in British Columbia and concludes, "We don't need to change the curriculum – or at least the goals of the curriculum – for the purposes of online learning, but we do need to ensure that the teaching methods are adapted for what is essentially a different learning environment to classroom-based teaching." His argument - so far as it goes - is sound, but I think that the wider shift of society does in fact demand a change in curriculum. The goals of education today are different, or at least, need to be different.
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