17 Dec 2020

Online learning here to stay after Covid-19 lockdown

From Morning Report, 8:38 am on 17 December 2020

Friday marks the official end of a school year that some hope has permanently changed the way classrooms work.

The national and Auckland lockdowns forced hundreds-of-thousands of students and their teachers to learn online, often for the very first time.

Advocates of internet-based education say schools should build on the experience instead of trying to put it behind them.

Education correspondent John Gerritsen reports.