The world has been moving more and more towards virtual dependency for a while now. As internet access and computer access has become more ubiquitous, people have been leaning more and more into the online realms, and yet education still remains.
From what I have seen, education has always been resistant to change. It was COVID-19 that pushed it into a completely virtual environment, but without the proper infrastructure and training necessary, I believe that push did more harm than good. Although it made education more accessible to everyone, the quality took a hit. People were rushed to make last minute changes to lesson plans and curriculum in order to compensate for the sudden shift. And because of that forceful, demanding nature that it was, people did not receive it well.
Now, I am slowly starting to find people wanting in-person classes more and more. I don’t know if it is from the negative association with that forcefulness of COVID-19 or if education is necessarily a physical, in-person experience. Although online education is more convenient, it for some reason is not enough. Maybe we just don’t have the right platform for it. Maybe we don’t have the right medium. Maybe we just aren’t ready for it.
Whatever the case, I see online education becoming the norm. I think it is just a matter of when. What do you think?
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