The Ideal is Blended Learning

Since the start of the pandemic, there is been little choice about learning would take place. It was all online.  But since wireless technology enabled us to think about teaching online and remotely, those of us intimately involved in the use of the technology knew that one drawback of being online was the lack of contact in real time with students.  So for a long time, we have felt that blended learning was the ideal.  This means that while a lot can be accomplished online, it is also good to be together physically.  I did my PhD that way....some courses were done online and others in real time, face-to-face.  Blended learning probably will be the ultimate goal in education because it allows us to do what we need to when it works best for us, but also allows the development of a real personal relationship between teacher and student which is, at the crux, why good teaching happens anywhere and everywhere.