Back to the Education Future—Deep Online Learning Opportunities

Abstract

We have moved past the point of online education return. Online education is here, no matter what we think of it, and we need to consider how we can plan and implement an online education paradigm shift that optimises our use of our brave new education medium. We need to work out how online education can be as equivalent as possible to traditional education, academically and also intangibly, and this book is here to help us move in this direction with its descriptions of optimal online education innovations, student-centred learning and examples. We have explored how online education can be made equivalent to and even better than on-campus education academically, such as via integrated and multi-modal learning that naturally includes the optimal educational use of VR and AI. We have also explored how online education can be equivalent to and even better than on-campus education intangibly. This can be achieved including via the use of online education communities and orientation support sites that can give online students a broad education success that includes optimal engagement, connectedness and well-being. We will now explore in this chapter how online education can use its position as the new leader of the education pack to lead us back to deep educational value.

This chapter is based on an interview conducted with Prof. Flynn on 2 February 2017.