Written by: Adam Loone
Published by: Brookings
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: It was Wednesday, March 11, at 8:09 p.m. when we officially received the email from Temple University President Richard Englert: “COVID-19 update: Temple University classes move to online and alternative learning methods for remainder of semester.”
The message from our president mirrored what other universities and colleges across the country received. Suddenly, every student and every faculty and staff member in practically every school in America was thrust into a digital world.
College administrators could read “Online Education for Dummies” again and again, but unless they had a history of delivering robust virtual education, it wasn’t going to help in these circumstances. According to an independent study conducted by Digital Promise, 43% of undergraduate students had never taken an online class prior to the pandemic and another 21% had only taken one. In other words, two-thirds of the undergraduate student population had little experience with digital learning.