Right and wrong in online higher education 11 Apr 2021 / 20:39 H.
AS we enter the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, many universities, particularly owners of private institutions, have finally decided to change their teaching and learning model or, more accurately, business model.
Crushed by a year of falling student income and fixed costs, and forced into online teaching, millions of dollars and faculty hours are being spent to convert course material, assessments and notes into online formats as quickly as possible.
The economics of this model is simple. Once the core course content has been created and uploaded, it can be used for many years with minimal maintenance. It is almost always of a minimum standard and there is rarely any appetite to improve it.