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COVID-19 and the Impact on Online Learning

As a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, colleges and universities around the globe are shifting to online learning as a replacement for on-campus delivery. Below are a collection of analyses, commentaries, resources, and practical advice about the impact of COVID-19 on online learning during and post-pandemic.

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Online Learning at a Turning Point: Five Promising Developments

The big test for online learning starts now. Given the remote experience almost everyone had during COVID-19 lockdowns, will online learning become more widespread?

Online Learning Post-COVID-19 - Five Possible Realities

As most of the pandemic restrictions have been removed and we learn to live with COVID-19 as an endemic virus, what happens to higher education?

A Look Back to Better Understand the Future – Ten Online Learning Trends and Patterns Before COVID – Five Small Items to Clarify

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, online learning registrations were growing while on-campus registrations were flattening and innovation was progressing slowly.

Five Ways Online Learning Can Turn Into an Unmitigated Disaster

Although there are many examples of successful online learning all over the world — from self-paced with peer and educator engagement to highly structured and engaged — it is critical to accept the reality that in some cases, online learning

Five Things Administrators and Policy-Makers Did Right in Their Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

At the same time the pandemic impacted colleges and universities, policy-makers and administrators were imagining the future of their institutions in the light of changing demographics, emerging technologies, new financial and performance regimes

Ten Emerging Developments Are Shaping a Different Future for Colleges and Universities

We will not return to college or university in Fall 2021 as if nothing happened in 2020-2021. The pandemic is one of those rare moments when we all recognize the world changed and we cannot go back to pre-pandemic times.

Five Things Instructional Designers and Course Creators Did Right in Their Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Before the pandemic, not all colleges and universities had instructional designers on the payroll. More if not all do now. As an integral part of the team, they play a key role in creating memorable, effective, engaging learning experiences, and are able

Five Things Colleges and Universities Did Right in Their Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

A year ago, faced with the sudden, shocking realities of a global pandemic, colleges and universities had to:

Advances, Concerns, Distractors, Promise and Opportunity for Online Learning in 2021

All of us with a stake in the future of higher education are wrestling with five significant questions at the start of 2021:

Media Coverage of Online Learning in a Pandemic

Since the pandemic hit in March 2020, opinion pieces and editorials occasionally leaned heavily to one side or the other, but the Canadian media have generally presented a balanced, neutral stance on the current state and long-term outlook of online learn

COVID-19 and the Impact on Online Learning

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