[Nich]

The table couldn't be more perfectly set for disruption of education. Parents across the globe watching their children complete the day's school lessons in 90 minutes via Zoom. so what do they spend the rest of the school day doing?

Some of those parents are entrepreneurial product designers, teachers, or systems designers. These enterprising minds will be competing with most schools, which have all pretty much left the transition to online learning entirely up to their teachers. If this is the new normal for education post-COVID, it won't be difficult to make something better.

An anecdote, but probably the case for many teachers: My cousin was sent home and asked by her school to go buy her own laptop, monitors, and webcam... and figure out how to run her class online using whatever software she saw fit. A free for all, basically. Oh and to access her students emails she needed to be on the university campus network so she could query an Access database on S: drive created in 1990.

Harvard has decided to charge full price for their online degrees in the post-COVID world regardless of any proof they can deliver the goods online to the same quality standard of a pre-COVID degree.