By Laura Brassington in discussion with the Coursera Skills Transformation Team.
In a recent blog post, ‘Five common predictions about COVID and education that now appear to be wrong’, HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman, pointed out that, contrary to common assumptions, the pandemic saw a rise in student applications to higher education institutions, and it seems that drop-out rates have remained low or may even have fallen. But perhaps one of the more predictable outcomes of the pandemic was the rise of online learning platforms. In April 2020, the World Economic Forum stated, ‘the COVID-19 pandemic has changed education forever’.
