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I've been asked by a Japanese media company to answer seven questions about the future of online education. They tell me that my answers will be translated into Japanese and then made available to a readership of over 4.6 million education and business professionals.
Having written my answers to the seven questions they asked, I thought it would be interesting to uncover what I'm getting wrong. One of the gifts of Inside Higher Ed has been its role as a place for all of us to share ideas and receive critical feedback.
So here is my invitation to you. Please feel invited to answer any or all of the seven questions, and share them as a letter to the editor.
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The Human Element in Online Learning
As colleges pivot quickly toward online learning, here’s the secret most educators and students don’t yet know: done right, online education can be surprisingly intimate, write Larry DeBrock, Norma Scagnoli and Fataneh Taghaboni-Dutta.
As the nation prepares to meet the threat of COVID-19, we are surrounded by the language of loneliness. We move from “social distancing” to “self-isolation” to even the prospect of avoiding the people we love. At colleges and universities across the country, we are pivoting quickly toward online learning, or as it is often called, distance learning