What a week it’s been for education. I’ve already had to stop and take a Tuesday breather just reading about it. Yesterday, our not-so-little local university here made national news after, one week into students’ return to on-campus learning, clusters of coronavirus started popping up in “a pattern of rapid spread.” This led to the university deciding to move all closes online — and swiftly. In California, on the other hand, the governor made the opposite call for all distance learning. What happened at UNC-Chapel Hill was not (and will not be) an isolated incident in education this fall. UNC was one of the first and largest schools in the nation to bring students back to campus, but other public universities and private learning institutions — USC, Georgia, UVA, Syracuse, to name a few — are set to welcome students back this week and next.
This week, our columns, industry stories and product news follow this beat. Read them to stay abreast of the latest AV innovations in education as we strap ourselves in for a bumpy season.
What will follow in the coming weeks will, no doubt, be an adventure. Or should I say a learning experience?