As the first wave of the #pandemic in some parts of the U.S. starts to wane, inevitably the #education sector is turning its thoughts to fall. The President of Brown University Christina Paxson shares her call for re-opening w/ @nytimes : https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-colleges-universities.html?smid=tw-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/2...
Paxson notes college on remote operations in the fall will start to spell a cultural and economic shift that she views as tectonic & threatening. However, her op-ed solutions appear to be what& #39;s good for Brown not necessarily the wider #educational sector.
Although her solutions are couched as what is good for all of academia, a better and more nuanced approach might be from @insidehighered w/ this list of 15 different approaches to fall for higher education: https://insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/learning-innovation/15-fall-scenarios?utm_content=buffer98cac&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=IHEbuffer">https://insidehighered.com/digital-l...
And then there& #39;s this from the always quotable Dr. Michael Sorrell ( @michaelsorrell ) president of Paul Quinn College via @chronicle ( #coronavirus #pandemic #COVID19 )