[sarbaz]

This sounds pretty silly. There's bound to be a way to make online (or semi-online) learning agile too. Distance learning is basically a solved problem and has been done for hundreds of years.

How about recorded lectures and in-person small group recitations? Or longer office hours? Obviously you have to change the methodology of learning a bit, but I'm sure it can be figured out.

In any case undergrad level science lectures are basically a one-sided info dump where the lecturer is lucky to get so much as an ACK that someone is listening.

[jcranmer]

How do you handle things like chemistry labs? Vocational training and art curricula are also going to be very difficult to do remotely, since you're probably not going to have requisite materials at home.

[tropo]

Let's just go all the way: at MIT, the Nuclear Engineering students get to operate a real nuclear reactor.

Put it on the internet?

[cultofmetatron]

labs are not lectures. If anything, moving the lectures online frees up the lecturer to devote more of their resources towards labs.

[petschge]

Completely solved problem? What about lab courses?