Teaching Online: Lessons from the Pandemic and End of the Teacher-Priest

Teaching at higher education institutions relies traditionally on ex-cathedra methods—those based on the authority of the professor’s position. The COVID-19 pandemic blasted online education years into the future and exposed its many challenges. Technology has provided smart and innovative solutions for distance education, which have opened new teaching methods and techniques and boosted the internationalization of higher education. While critics of these innovations denounce alleged flaws, the benefits are likely to be greater than the costs, a turning point in teaching that is difficult to reverse.