

When you remove the limitations of the dedicated classroom, it gives us the ability to excel throughout the ongoing term of our learning. With remote learning, we are no longer that herd of wildebeest that – as we all know – is only as fast as its slowest member. We all learn in different manners and at different speeds. It offers both learners and coaches the ability to connect on a one-to-one basis as well as through the provision of group discussion, and it means that classes or modules can often be taken at the learner’s own pace. ‘Remote’, in this context, means anywhere away from a dedicated classroom and/or a teacher, coach, or professor. As we’ll see in a minute, this does not just mean online courses. Remote learning, in its rawest sense, is the act of studying or learning new practices while not being confined to a brick-and-mortar classroom. We cannot know what the world will look like going into 2021 and beyond, but we can say without doubt that remote learning is here to stay. And despite what you think about your government’s reaction (go out but don’t go out, am I right?) the online classroom has become a mainstay as we near the end of the calendar year. There is not a man, woman or child in the world who has been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic, whether directly or indirectly. College education, NVQs, university degrees, on-the-job training courses… in 2020, what do each of these things have in common? They have all, at some point, been forced into online classrooms-what we call remote learning.
