Delbanco: Offerring More than ���Zoom from Your Room'���Noted

Andrew Delbanco: Universities Must Offer More than ���Zoom from Your room��� https://www.ft.com/content/27e3fc2a-1542-4a3c-964b-506dbe9c8ee2: ���The most candid thing to say to prospective students would be: ���Come to college and Zoom from your room!���... Richard Arum, dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine, has suggested that elite institutions, forced to resort to online technologies, should now help develop ���online learning options complementary in practice and commensurate in quality to face-to-face instruction���. This would benefit their own students and those whose ���life circumstances make them unable to leave their family homes and forgo paid work to attend college��� on a residential campus. What exactly this will mean no one can say.... Every college is now scrambling to make students��� online experience as personal as possible.... We need better online learning for everyone. The involuntary experiment at elite schools could help to achieve that. Harvard expects its innovations to have ���cascading effects on higher education���. If so, the disruption will have yielded some lasting benefit. Otherwise, the pandemic will have been an inconvenience for the privileged and a disaster for everyone else��� .#noted #2020-07-12