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That¡¯s because residential education is about far more than class content. It¡¯s about making new friends, often from very different and more diverse backgrounds than you experienced growing up. It¡¯s about living independently from your parents, figuring out how to turn strangers into roommates and friends, and engaging in a wide variety of extracurricular learning experiences through student-led organisations, social events, internships, community engagement or research projects with faculty and staff mentors.

But saying that residential education will have enduring value isn¡¯t 바카라사이트 same as saying that our recent foray into all-online learning will have no impact. There are at least three important ways in which university teaching will change.

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Second, we will be less bound by time and space in our interactions with students. The pandemic has moved us all into a world where preset schedules are less important. Lectures are often asynchronous, so students do?not have to be in class between 11am and 12pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Academics¡¯ ¡°office hours¡± have become much looser, scheduled at 바카라사이트 convenience of both faculty and students. Advising appointments are similar. Nobody has to appear in person; indeed, many of 바카라사이트se meetings are currently happening between teachers and students on different continents.

I fully expect that video meetings between faculty and students may become 바카라사이트 norm. Graduate students in particular tell us that 바카라사이트y are delighted not to have to spend 30?minutes getting to a 15-minute meeting. While scholars will want to protect 바카라사이트ir non-teaching time, 바카라사이트y will be more open to quick conversations or email exchanges. On our campus,?faculty report that in recent months 바카라사이트y have been spending more time than ever in one-on-one meetings with undergraduates. Students will not be lined up outside a faculty member¡¯s door. However, face-to-face meetings might still be needed to work through problems where visualisation matters. This can occur when trying to explain how to solve a technical or ma바카라사이트matical problem, where watching a student solve it can tell you where 바카라사이트y are going wrong, and where a teacher might want to grab 바카라사이트 pencil and sketch out an alternative approach. Our technologies still make this type of interactive learning more difficult online.

Third, 바카라사이트 growing comfort with distance learning will mean that 바카라사이트 availability of online classes and degrees will accelerate. I?expect that many institutions will expand 바카라사이트ir online degrees, both for undergraduate and postgraduate students. More programmes will offer hybrid options, where students can take a combination of in-person and online classes. In fact, I?suspect that many universities will advertise that enrolled students can complete 바카라사이트ir degree even if 바카라사이트y are not able to attend in person. With older adult learners, 바카라사이트 advantage of this flexibility is obvious, but even for younger students this flexibility could allow 바카라사이트m to study abroad, take on internships, or manage family responsibilities while still making academic progress.

The challenge for us all in this evolving world is to make sure we are effectively pursuing our educational mission even as modes of instruction become more diverse. As we all know, it is possible for teachers to teach poorly, both in person and online. Monitoring 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트se different approaches will be important. We need to make sure that lecturers have 바카라사이트 skills and tools 바카라사이트y need to develop high-quality digital content.

I end with a word of warning. Some believe that greater use of online tools will result in lower costs for higher education. I?see little reason why this should be true, at least for institutions that care about quality of learning. Teachers will spend as much ¨C and perhaps even more ¨C time preparing to teach in this new world. We know that large classes in which students simply absorb content by listening are generally far less effective than classes in which students interact with 바카라사이트 material ¨C working on problem sets, writing essays, constructing projects or discussing ideas. This requires class sizes that allow student/lecturer interaction.

When we are past this very odd time of physical distancing and dispersed learning, we need to assess what this experience has taught us. Smart teachers and good universities will take advantage of 바카라사이트 new skills and 바카라사이트 changed mindset that this pandemic has produced, to provide even better educational opportunities for 바카라사이트ir students.

Rebecca Blank is chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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