done so the economy can come back . It is interesting to consider whether or not the rolled-out vaccines will be tied to the economic recovery , because again , if you look over the past year , with a variety of responses , you haven ’ t seen a consistent economic evolution , depending on who was hit by COVID-19 the hardest , what approaches they took . European countries are going to be helped more by this shift , by this necessary shift towards technology and transformation . The American companies have been doing this for years , and now European companies have been poked in the bum and forced to transform themselves as well . So , I wonder if this will also help with productivity and competitiveness in what has really been old-school and far behind .
Is the best approach for education an individual approach ? Or something else ?
This is something that academics , and especially academic administrators , have been pushing for very hard . What we can do via Zoom . What we can do via recordings . What we can do in the classroom and how we could better integrate all these separate issues . I think there was a push beforehand toward some innovation , but at some point , you have older lecturers who just like to stand behind the podium . In some lectures though , you have innovative thinkers who are trying to provide more teamwork and more interactive classrooms that they call reverse classrooms , where you are putting the onus on the students . I think this is situationally and contextually specific . This works well , perhaps , in political science or in a law class especially . But you can ’ t do this in engineering where you have to learn the fundamentals , you have to learn a lot of physics otherwise it just does not work . So I think this is also an issue of stratification , but I think it too has been given this push . Especially since , it seems like the past year has been an academic administrator ’ s dream experiment , when it comes to education . The school would be great if it weren ’ t for all of the students , so let ’ s get rid of the students and have us just talk to the computer ! And what we are realizing is that we can ’ t do this technological shift and expect immediate results on productivity and you can ’ t expect immediate results in the education system . Therefore , we have seen that we can ’ t go 100 % now , even though we do know now that we can . We can live 10 % online , but the rest should be live , we need face-to-face interaction .