The Democratization of Higher Education in America… Maybe
MARCH… 2020…
You know the story.
Elementary, middle, and high schools shut down for a supposed 2-week quarantine. A few crazy, over precautious colleges and universities, shut down for the rest of the semester.
For the first time ever, the extent of the revolutionary technology and educational resources developed over the past few decades would be applied to a large-scale test: transferring the entire U.S. educational system online.
While the loss of in-person educational experience was a bummer for all the high school and college seniors, the opportunity for a mass test of technology to change the face of education has actually been one of the biggest positives of the coronavirus pandemic, giving us a chance to see whether or not a universal education system will ever be achievable.
To say the least, we are all hopeful.
As a result of the pandemic, technological advances developed over the past few years have finally been integrated into everyday life. Zoom and Microsoft Teams are just two examples of these technologies, not to mention the virtual conference and class physical technology that has made it into millions of classrooms around the globe.
