It's not even half way through December, which leaves a full three weeks left in the year, but the year-end retrospectives have started. As usual, I will be judicious in my selections. So, Tony Bates. The observation: same as last year, only better. Well, except for the fires and the floods. "Given that Covid-19 is now endemic," writes Bates, "will universities and colleges be willing to take the risk of large lecture classes in the future? I am waiting for the first student (probably in the USA) to sue if they get sick." On the other hand, "2020 and 2021 was perhaps the greatest effort ever in professional development for faculty," which begins to correct a longstanding institutional failing. Meanwhile, "there was no major new technology that made a breakthrough in online learning in 2021."
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