Earlier in the year a distinction was made labelling the rapid pivot as emergency remote teaching, thus distinguishing from online education pre-COVID...1/

..I’m not convinced that we’ve moved much beyond emergency remote teaching, despite many universities talking about how they’ll be offering high-quality blended/online education in the new academic year....2/

..In real terms the amount of time faculty would’ve had to prepare online education between lockdown and now is pretty minimal and if you throw in time spent planning for some in-person teaching which is likely to be disrupted then it will be nothing like approaching...3/

..the time of careful planning, designing, producing etc that typifies high-quality online education...4/

..Add to that the fact that there is neither the culture or the people to form interdisciplinary teams at scale to support teaching and learning of greater complexity then we have something that’s just a nudge on from emergency remote teaching...5/

...We should be careful that we don’t allow the passage of time to normalise this form of online/distance learning and teaching - not only will it do a disservice to what’s come before...6/

..but it will also normalise an enormous burden placed on faculty and not foster a cultural change in learning and teaching that moves it from an individual to a team sport leading to a longer term investment in a whole ecosystem that allows learning and teaching to flourish