The Corona demon created a pandemic, it sunk the entire Titanic of Academics teaching us the new resistance and to maintain Social Distance,
A toddler asked a mother while going out why should I bother?
I daily wear my uniform, but school has changed its complete form,
I get thoughts of going to the beach, just when my teacher is about to teach,
We are so many on my phone, but in reality all alone,
I am not missing my studies, but yes I Miss my Buddies
Mom and Dad talk online classes have increased my screen-time,
But tell me where is that school of mine?
The future of the higher ed COVID-19 that it will give us, however, is not entirely bleak. If we look far and hard enough in our post-epidemic environment, we can see some reasons for optimism. Nowhere does the supreme future of COVID-19 have a better or more exciting future than in the area of teaching and learning.
I will share three vaticinations of how our post-epidemic doctrine will be changed throughout the ed ecosystem.
Vaticination No. 1: Blended Learning Will Dramatically Increase
Online learning programs are highly engaging activities, requiring development time and significant investment to get started. Many of us are concerned that a rapid shift in distance learning will tarnish the image of online education.
This does not mean, however, that the necessary transport of COVID-19 to remote teaching will be detrimental to student learning.
The need to teach and learn about synchronous platforms (Canvas, Blackboard, D2L) and synchronous (Zoom) will bring significant benefits if these layout methods are done in face-to-face instruction. We will return to COVID-19 with a shared understanding of how digital tools are compatible, not substitute, for close-to-face and fast-to-face learning. Sitting lessons will improve the practice developed by experts in delivering content online, as valuable class time will be put to good use in conversational discourses, debates, and orientation.
Vaticination No. 2: Online Education Will Be a Strategic Priority at Every Institution
Very few colleges and universities did nothing about pre-COVID-19 online education. There have been wide variations, however, to the extent that online education has been the backbone of strategic planning.
All of this will change after COVID-19. In the future, every president, provost, dean, and the trustee will understand that online education is not just a potential source of new revenue. Instead, online education will be recognized as the backbone of an entire school system for institutional sustainability and academic excellence.
This post-epidemic understanding will change the way schools plan, manage and fund online education. Gone will be the days when every school within the university will be able to travel through online education.
Vaticination No. 3: The existing and possible partnerships of OPM will be reconsidered
If there is one big thing COVID-19 has taught us, it is a mistake to bring out the basics of education. Teaching and learning are essential skills of all higher education institutions.
We suspect that those schools that rely on internet management providers to run online programs have had a hard time making this change. (Although impartially, research to support or contradict this view has not yet been done.)
This does not mean that in the future schools will stop, or should, stop working with OPMs. As the OPM model continues to unravel, the scale and strength of the university/company partnership are likely to increase. OPMs specialize in market research and digital marketing of online programs that few schools can, or should, try to duplicate.
Ms Preeti Pasricha
Academic Coordinator
C P Goenka International School
