Faculty fought MOOCs with boiling oil & boulders, claiming education could not possibly be delivered virtually. Now, they’re being forced to do it by force majeure & administrators everywhere are taking note.

3rd order impact of Covid-19: the end of the University as we know it.
QED https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1237494837412331521?s=21 https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1237494837412331521
Indicator: https://twitter.com/romano_polisci/status/1261041839639015425?s=21 https://twitter.com/Romano_PoliSci/status/1261041839639015425
Indicator: gutting the humanities https://twitter.com/benjaminepark/status/1260971987515478016?s=21 https://twitter.com/BenjaminEPark/status/1260971987515478016
"Not just a river in Egypt": https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1261306466608336903?s=20
Indicator https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1263829833605357568?s=21 https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1263829833605357568
Indicator: MOOCs booming https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/moocs-online-learning.html
Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming

The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/moocs-online-learning.html
Indicator: Three months later @FrankBruni publishes an op-ed with literally the same title https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/coronavirus-college-humanities.html
Indicator: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/29/stanford-students-given-return-date-but-warned-of-fundamentally-changed-experience/
Stanford: Students given return date, but warned of ‘fundamentally changed’ experience

Next year, if health conditions permit, freshmen and sophomores will be able to return to campus in fall and summer quarters, and juniors and seniors will be permitted to return in winter and sprin…

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/29/stanford-students-given-return-date-but-warned-of-fundamentally-changed-experience/
Indicator: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/08/opinion/coronavirus-allows-us-reimagine-college-experience/
The coronavirus allows us to reimagine the college experience - The Boston Globe

We can start by turning the residential‐versus‐remote comparison on its head and asking: What are the shortcomings of the residential experience and advantages of the virtual one?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/08/opinion/coronavirus-allows-us-reimagine-college-experience/
“Shouldn’t institutions of higher education be modeling for students the importance of ethical, careful decision making based on scientific inquiry rather than on magical thinking?” https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/02/what%E2%80%99s-needed-make-campus-safe-now-odds-iconic-college-experience-people-crave
What’s needed to make a campus safe now is at odds with the iconic

What’s needed to make a campus safe now is at odds with the experiences people crave, argues Deborah J. Cohan, and institutions are making decisions about the fall based on magical thinking.

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/02/what%E2%80%99s-needed-make-campus-safe-now-odds-iconic-college-experience-people-crave
Indicator: https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/ivy-league-international-students-cost-coronavirus/297381/
It’s About to Get Easier (and More Expensive) to Make the Ivy League

With international applications expected to fall because of the virus, American students have a better shot at top schools. But it’ll come at a price.

https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/ivy-league-international-students-cost-coronavirus/297381/
Indicator https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/perspectives/higher-education-pandemic/index.html
Opinion: College in America could be changed forever

The pandemic could mean financial disaster for colleges and universities and, ultimately, a shift in the quality of education provided to students, write Charles A. Goldman and Rita T. Karam of RAND...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/perspectives/higher-education-pandemic/index.html
Indicator https://twitter.com/houstonchron/status/1283506507259224064?s=21 https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1283506507259224064
Indicator https://twitter.com/_john_handel/status/1284561471691567104?s=21 https://twitter.com/_john_handel/status/1284561471691567104
Indicator https://twitter.com/thehillopinion/status/1285267728551620610?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheHillOpinion/status/1285267728551620610
Indicator: https://www.profgalloway.com/uss-university/ 
Indicator https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-harvards-star-computer-science-professor-built-a-distance-learning-empire
How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire

David Malan, of the hit class CS50, was working to perfect online teaching long before the pandemic. Is his method a model for the future of higher education?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-harvards-star-computer-science-professor-built-a-distance-learning-empire
Indicator https://twitter.com/jennfrey/status/1290332502226276359?s=21 https://twitter.com/jennfrey/status/1290332502226276359
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