“Covid19 has created some amazing changes and disruptions in education. With a huge impact on Edtech,” highlights Anant Agarwal, Founder & CEO edX and professor at MIT, in a conversation in the Executive Chats series with Rector Gianmario Verona.

And digital technology can now have a big impact on accessibility and inclusion, he underlines. “Education is a human right – everyone in the world should have access to education. With digital technology we can increase education all over the world on a massive scale.”

“And at universities we can also improve quality of education with blended learning. The new normal on campuses will be blended learning,” he states.

Whilst for younger school students, “a higher degree of in-person learning and interaction is required. But we must remember that these digital natives are completely comfortable learning online.”