AFTER a disrupted start to the semester for universities, undergraduate students from multiple faculties at the Australian National University (ANU) have been advised that lectures and tutorials will move online.
In an email from the ANU’s associate dean of education, Bronwen Whiting, it said the move to online education has been advised by the vice chancellor Brian Schmidt as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We can advise that… all tutorials… will be replaced by online delivery,” it read.
“Where it is not possible to use recorded or Zoom tutorials, we are encouraging students and tutors to try to ensure there is a suitable distance between all people in the classroom – present medical advice is that this distance should be a minimum of 1.5 metres.”
Other ANU students from different faculties such as the ANU College of Law received similar emails about the move to put courses online, however, the delivery of postgraduate courses still remains in doubt due to labs and data collection.
At this stage, the move to online teaching at ANU does not mean that the campus will close.
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