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This article about online education in Hong Kong is interesting. It includes this quote: 'We have some crazy ideas,” Professor Kwok said. “Conventional ways of organising teaching are being seriously challenged. We want to decouple content from time and space.” He also wanted to “transcend course, departmental or even institutional boundaries”. Decoupling from time and space is exciting. Not just 'content' hopefully, but also collaboration and discussion.

Professor David Maguire's blog post, Learning from lockdown: harnessing tech to improve the student experience , talks of four levels of digitally enabled teaching and learning. Most of us are at level 2, some are at level 3 where ' curricula and pedagogic models used for teaching, learning and are extended with active use of technology. He argues that we need to get to level 4 where courses are 'digital first'. At level 4, there is 'a higher degree of flexibility, student interaction, peer-to-peer learning and personalisation with accordant deep learning'. The author is involved in the Jisc project Learning and teaching re-imagined .

'Disruptive innovation' is an idea promoted by the late Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School. Francisco Marmlojeo argues in the latest University World News that 'We need to reimagine higher education, not just repair it' . ' Crises can make innovations that seemed previously impossible suddenly inevitable. There will be years of ‘a reckoning’ that higher education institutions will go through. But the ‘new normal’ we must shape needs to begin with the recognition that putting classes on Zoom isn’t change.'