That's surely possible - but a very different outcome seems at least as likely. The ' black swan,' that unforeseen event that changes everything, is upon us." Goldie Blumenstyk, my friend and former colleague at The Chronicle of Higher Education, went so far as to suggest that the coronavirus could be a "black swan" moment - "more of a catalyst for online education and other ed-tech tools than decades of punditry and self-serving corporate exhortations." She continued, "It seems safe to say that this will be not only enormously disruptive but also paradigm changing. Bradley, chief information officer at Texas's Trinity University, wrote in a LinkedIn post. And the resistance to online education is going to go away as a practical matter," James N. Every student is going to be receiving education online. "Every faculty member is going to be delivering education online.
The prospect of hundreds of thousands of professors and students venturing into academic cyberspace for the first time has prompted some commentators to take to social media to predict that this period could alter the landscape long term for online education. So today, at least - next week seems very far away at this point - this column will focus on a question that is generating a good bit of discussion among thoughtful observers of teaching and learning issues: What impact will this sudden, forced immersion and experimentation with technology-enabled forms of learning have on the status of online learning in higher education? Below, 11 experts share their thoughts on how the explosion of remote learning - much of which may be primitive and of dubious quality - could affect attitudes and impressions of a mode of learning that already struggles to gain widespread faculty and student support. That's especially the case in certain realms, including for those of you responsible for helping to deliver instruction and learning at your institutions. That all may still be true, but the new reality is that COVID-19 is increasingly dominating not just our collective head spaces (in ways helpful and not) but also what our jobs are day to day. Seven days ago in this space, I went out of my way to say that I hoped to make this column a "coronavirus-free space" to the extent possible, given Inside Higher Ed's excellent coverage of the pandemic elsewhere and the "recognition that the rest of what we all do professionally each day isn’t stopping."
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