There has been a lot of hemming, hawing, and hand-wringing about upsetting students and lecturers by asking that they attend university in-person.
In my university years, the 8am lectures on Friday mornings in winter were the most miserable. None in attendance wanted to be there and our lecturer Anthony Delano – a pompous, successful former newspaper editor and foreign correspondent – knew it.
The trip down memory lane was prompted by a friend telling me about her daughter’s post-pandemic university experience. This friend’s daughter – call her Jo – enrolled in a science degree in 2022, at a capital city university, only to find out later that many of her lectures and tutorials were online.
The pandemic accelerated the remote learning trend, creating a landscape of expensive empty university lecture halls and scattered students and teachersAnd of course, being at university physically – rather than virtually – fosters creativity and debate, not to mention that it increases the chance of meeting someone you might want to date. Just askFor Jo, the social experience was limited at her university.
The idea of remote learning preceded the pandemic. Universities were responding to demands from students in the digital age for such services; where they could to attend lectures and tutorials online, or have them recorded to watch later. The pandemic accelerated this trend, creating a landscape of expensive empty rooms and scattered students and teachers.
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