By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter
Arizona State University Michael Crow outlined and touted some of the school’s plans going forward as higher education institutions and their students navigate COVID-19 and all its ramifications.
Crow said in a new video that ASU is offering different learning paths for students as technology becomes even more important in education experiences.
“This is a complicated world we are living in right now,” Crow said in the video referring to the impacts of the coronavirus.
Like other institutions, Colleges and students have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic including on the financial, operational, educational and health fronts.
Crow said ASU is at the forefront of research, modeling and innovation related to the virus. That includes scientific, economic and mental health fronts.
“We want to understand the psychological impact of the virus on people’s lives, on families, on structures,” Crow said.
Crow said ASU is moving forward with a variety of learning options for students.
Those include on-campus and in-class classes, online classes, more self-guided, individualized virtual learning and immersive virtual reality learning.
Crow said on-campus immersive experience and classes are still a priority but he also touted the university’s virtual reality and other technology based educational innovations.
“I call them Star Trek, Vulcan science camp level learning,” Crow said of the digital immersion programs being rolled out at Arizona State.
Crow stressed the “education through exploration” and using technology and other offers to create more individualized and effective outcomes for students.
You can watch the video here:
https://president.asu.edu/watch/asu-teaching-and-learning-realms-2020
