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In 2020, universities shifted to online learning – three lessons from students’ experiences

In 2020, universities shifted to online learning – three lessons from students’ experiences

For young people who were in university at the height of the COVID pandemic, the university experience was suddenly radically different to what they had expected. Teaching moved quickly online, with students forced to adjust to using digital tools to complete their learning at home. Those looking forward to life on campus instead saw social and extra-curricular activities curtailed. […] … learn more→

Is it possible to learn a foreign language online?

Is it possible to learn a foreign language online?

Today we frequently use the Internet as a source of knowledge and learning. The recent pandemic has highlighted the immense potential of online learning when circumstances prevent attending face-to-face classes normally. The offer is so varied that we can sign up for a watercolor or descriptive statistics course without any problem. But is the digital format equally […] … learn more→

Professor flexibility, recorded lectures: Some positive university legacies of the pandemic

Professor flexibility, recorded lectures: Some positive university legacies of the pandemic

The COVID-19 closure of university and college campuses and move to online learning in March 2020 was a massive global educational experiment. Many students were severely disadvantaged and strained during the experiment, others coped and some thrived. Educators are divided on its impacts. With international colleagues who are geography experts, I studied lessons learned during the pandemic. Taken together, […] … learn more→

How some children prospered in pandemic online learning

How some children prospered in pandemic online learning

For parents, children and teachers, one of the most striking memories of the pandemic will be the sudden transition to online learning. Many educators, parents and children struggled with online education when schools were closed, and were relieved when classroom instruction resumed. While media often seemed to report on negative aspects of online schooling, this was not a […] … learn more→

Beyond Zoom, Teams and video lectures — what do university students really want from online learning?

Beyond Zoom, Teams and video lectures — what do university students really want from online learning?

As any university student, lecturer or tutor can attest, the pandemic has turned learning and teaching upside down. So it’s important we understand what happens for students when their learning shifts online with little to no warning. Since 2020, there’s been a growing body of important research into the impact of online learning for educators. […] … learn more→

Advantages and disadvantages of online learning

Advantages and disadvantages of online learning

Learning is an activity that has to go on throughout our lives if we wish to improve our lives. People who keep learning despite facing obstacles, swear by the positive changes that learning promotes. In the current era of the internet, learning has become accessible to so many people in ways like never before. Even […] … learn more→

Top reasons online learning is the future of education

Top reasons online learning is the future of education

Unless you have been living under a rock, you will admit that the concept of traditional education has drastically changed in the last few years. With the advent of technology and the internet, the idea of online education has penetrated every part of the world. Luckily, with the web being omnipresent, you have access to […] … learn more→

Universities have invested in online learning – and it can provide students with value for money

Universities have invested in online learning – and it can provide students with value for money

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, so does universities’ reliance on online teaching, prompting complaints from students that they are not getting full value from tuition fees. Students who have returned to campus fear that their university experience as a whole is being diminished. Manchester Metropolitan University has moved first-year teaching online as students self-isolate. The University and College Union has […] … learn more→

Towards a non-classroom university? Decalogue for essential reflection

Towards a non-classroom university? Decalogue for essential reflection

Among many others in many different fields, one of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the need to resort to the development of online learning , given the impossibility of doing it in person. The phenomenon is not at all new, since it had previously registered significant progress at all educational levels. But the current crisis situation has […] … learn more→