Post 401: What effect will COVID19 have on the future of Higher Education?

Post 401: What effect will COVID19 have on the future of Higher Education?

I think more universities will have a Plan B online education alternative because of COVID19. Many universities were caught off guard when COVID19 struck. Many universities only had a partial online program, not a complete one because people still think online education is inferior to a face to face education.

Less time should be spent on college sports, building large college buildings, and more time should be spent in creating interesting robust online programs so that when there is an emergency, then every student can still get a quality college education online.

Universities will need to charge less for tuition if they offer an online alternative to undergraduate education.  Affordable Online Education at high ranking universities like UCLA will help lower income students get an education, and will help international students who want a quality UCLA education to take UCLA classes without having to come to the US, which is very expensive.

For each face to face class, university professors needs to have a robust online alternative of their face to face class.  All Faculty need to be trained in how to create an online class and to teach online classes as well as they create and teach their face to face classes.

The faculty of the future will be adept at both online, hybrid and face to face teaching. They will also be adept at creating interactive lectures, be good at graphic design, and have high computer digital literacy so that when a pandemic strikes, everyone can easily pivot to the online environment without a problem.

To me, this is the future of higher education after the COVID19 pandemic--more online classes, more online literature faculty, and cheaper tuition costs due to saving overhead money of dorms, food and physical classroom. Who knows, maybe even faculty campuses will be a thing of the past and only digital campuses will exist in the future!

Imagine a digital lecture hall! I think Microsoft Team already has an AI that can do just that! Will digital lecture Zoom halls be the wave of the future?