What's next for online education?
Alexandra Mihai,
The Educationalist,
Jul 04, 2022
Alexandra Mihai sets up this article as a dichotomy between "the Higher Education community gains a deeper understanding of the value of online education" and "the pandemic experience serves as 'hard' evidence that this is a sub-optimal mode of education." But then we read that (big reveal) "our options for quality education in the future more like an ecosystem and not a series of mutually exclusive paths." Sigh. The real work in this article is done by the definition of 'online education' as "courses and programmes taught fully online, or with a large online component in case of a blended approach." Thus institutionally defined, online education turns out to need institutional acknowledgement, institutional structures, quality assurance, institutional support, and collaboration. Or, read another way, this article says 'online education will be successful (only) if (we) educational institutions make it so.'
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