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Delaware’s oldest students are zooming to the head of the class as adult education programs continue virtual instruction during the coronavirus pandemic.
While some Delaware seniors spent much of their time during the coronavirus lockdowns binge-streaming television shows, others enjoyed another type of bingeing exercising their brains by participating in online adult education classes.
And they are lining up for more.
“We offered about 300 in-person classes before the pandemic,” says Jennifer Merrill, manager of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Delaware’s Wilmington campus. “But now that’s grown to 317 online classes, and we had 1,400 students enroll for the spring semester in the first two days of registration.”