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Higher education is in a period of unprecedented disruption. One of the only certainties? Digital literacy has never been more essential.
The debate over the importance of teaching digital literacy in higher education has been going on for years, but as of summer 2020, the debate is over. COVID-19 has changed everything.
After the outbreak shuttered college and university campuses in the spring, schools began trying to chart a difficult course into an uncertain future. Some schools are conducting all instruction in the 2020–2021 school year online. Some are proceeding with distance learning for at least the first term. And others have students on campus for a hybrid of online and in-person, socially distanced learning.
However individual schools decide to move forward, the pandemic has shown that teaching digital literacy has never been more critical for higher education. Why?
The first reason is that, as online learning becomes an integral part of the new normal, colleges and universities need to find more effective ways to engage students across distances to ensure that they achieve the same educational outcomes they did with in-person learning. The second reason is that the economic fallout of the pandemic means today’s students will need to learn new skills to better distinguish themselves in a job market that offers fewer opportunities.
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