Your experience of x ≠ x

"Online learning" is far broader than your experience or understanding of it. You haven't found its limits or possibilities.

And our perception of our experience of online learning is less than our actual experience of it. Online is about being digitally connected. Your on-campus students were already doing online learning.

Online learning is physical. You can design physical tasks for online learners. You can design tasks that don't involve computers.

You can think about (or ask them to think about) all the resources available where they are. You can get them to interact with people and things outside what is part of the institution.

You can use your course as the base camp from which they explore a much wider world.