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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

    August 24, 2022

    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

    May 09, 2022

    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?

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

    August 03, 2021

    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

    April 01, 2021

    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

    March 26, 2021

    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

    March 18, 2021

    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

    March 17, 2021

    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

    March 10, 2021

    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

    January 26, 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

    December 16, 2020

    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

  • 10 leçons tirées d'un monde post-pandémique

    October 30, 2020

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    10 Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

    October 30, 2020

    Contact North | Contact Nord Research Associate Dr. Tony Bates gives us 10 Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World to improve both the quality of the learning experience and outcomes for students in the future.

  • Online Learning at a Tipping Point?

    October 07, 2020

    In March 2020, some 1.6 billion learners around the world were suddenly being taught through online learning, with many instructors and learners experiencing an online platform or hybrid platforms for the first time.

  • What’s next for Teaching Online in Colleges and Universities in Ontario?

    October 06, 2020

    As we start to look to 2021 and beyond, what is next for teaching online in colleges and universities in Ontario? Will online learning become a more permanent, dominant form of teaching?

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    What Is Next for Online Learning During and After COVID-19?

    April 30, 2020

    Three predictions of potential change to the shape of our colleges and universities: What is next for online learning?

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    Five Key Lessons Learned from Faculty and Instructors Moving Their Courses Online as a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    April 22, 2020

    Around the world, millions of faculty and instructors are now experiencing remote teaching and learning in different ways. Here are five key lessons from this "forced experiment."

  • Online Learning is a Way of Constraining the Spread of COVID-19

    March 13, 2020

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