The New Normal

              Online learning is not new, it has been used way back in the 1960’s. Although the internet was not yet invented back then, students from University of Illinois, USA began learning from computer terminals that were interlinked to form a network. However, in 1984, the first-ever completely online course was offered by the University of Toronto. This was the start of a revolution whose potential was largely unknown to the public long ago, but one that will make learning greatly accessible and close of what people could have ever imagined. It was a Friday of March this year when the local government of Baguio City announced class suspension. I remembered how my face lit up after hearing that we’ll be having a week of “break” I would say because that time we were feeling exhausted from all the requirements. Back then, I did not really think of Covid – 19 as a serious matter but here we are turning nine months of lockdown. So...