University campuses across Canada will look very different this September. Instead of thousands of students flooding post-secondary institutions to partake in classes and courses, education will be delivered online through platforms that are still being developed.
Although this makes sense as a public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the president of the Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) said the change is a massive undertaking for instructors and professors.
They will have to spend the next few months preparing for the drastic shift in pedagogy. “When are folks going to find the time to do the revamping of the curriculum and implementing the online platform?” Dave Westwood said, a kinesiology professor and DFA president. “Many