Online higher education had been emerging even before the pandemic. But its popularity soared during the pandemic because there was no choice – go online or go uneducated. Now that in-class education is again possible, many are trying to understand the key differences between online and in-class education. Before regulations are formalized, policy makers may want to understand the impacts of two major innovations – one revolutionary and one evolutionary.
#1. Revolutionary Innovation: The Medium is the Message.
When Marshall McLuhan famously noted that the “medium is the message, he perceptively understood that the medium influences how the message will be understood and accepted. While