8 marzo 2024
Dr. Daniele Nappo, Founder and Legal Representative of the S. Freud Private School, draws attention to the changes that have taken place in the university field from the end of World War II until after Covid, which greatly incentivized universities to invest in distance education.
Since the end of World War II, we have witnessed an increase in international mobility and have seen the rise of real streams of university migrants. Streams that have moved thousands of people to reach the best universities in all nations and have followed directions influenced by historical, social, political, economic and cultural events. Previously, those who wanted to achieve a quality education had to take their suitcase and move to another place. Then came student exchange such as Erasmus. A program that to this day moves thousands of students and has had a doubling of the European budget in the 2021-27 financial period. In Europe, the first law that attempted to regulate E-learning (i.e., distance learning using technology and the Net placed at the service of learning) dates back to July 2001. European Union ministers pledged to insist on efforts concerning the effective integration of ICT, Information and Communication Technologies, as an important element in the evolution of education and training systems (...). In 2020 it was realized that most traditional universities had fallen behind on digital compared to other businesses and that the distance learning market was quite stable but still belonging to an elite. As all the world's universities closed, the pandemic changed everything: 220 million students and 25,000 universities were stimulated with the consequent shift of teaching and research activities to online. And now with the end of the emergency, many universities have decided not to return to the past and continue to invest in distance education also to give value to the investments made.
