Returning to lectures in 2021

Abstract

With the advent of COVID-19 in 2020 and the ensuing social distancing measures adopted in relation to large gatherings, universities in the Australasian higher education sector found themselves unable to run traditional face to face lectures, or large tutorials. This necessarily meant that all institutions had to adopt alternate approaches to providing the key information to students that would normally be done in a lecture format. In many cases institutions pivoted quickly and implemented a range of online strategies, while others changed the forms of delivery altogether, replacing their traditional lectures with other forms of information sharing. But now, as we move into 2021, and the social distancing restrictions that most jurisdictions put in place have been relaxed somewhat, it is important to understand what institutions are intending to do in relation to returning to face-to-face lectures.