With all the variations of the virus and all the IFs that are out there, I believe online education will keep growing and become way more sophisticated. We'l have viruses forever now. They won't go away.
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Maybe the students will just get used to the new normal. But it still doesn't go away that the best is still the traditional way to learn. Like these medical students who are doing everything to be able to adjust, accept the current situation and still be able to continue the face-to-face class. Because they have to do things that need to be done in a laboratory that can't be done online.
Sure, for some academic disciplines that will forever be the case. You can't become a surgeon by sitting in front of a computer screen only. Then again online education really is a good option as it is easily accessible from anywhere and should be as cheap as possible.
However, since everybody can upload shit and sell it as education, the quality of the content on the internet is pretty diluted.