Recently, I had an interesting meeting with a long-known colleague. What would have been an unusual meeting a couple of months ago, for two colleagues who work at the same institution, has now become the ‘new normality’ – we met over a scheduled Zoom meeting. In the meeting, she shared her observation that while Covid-19 has taken education by storm, its impact on higher education planning and policies was an inherent disaster. This sudden act and immediate change to the way higher education composes itself was claiming the space for staff and students and changing the way we were existing and being. In this, however, she argued, that in some ways Covid-19 was a mere accelerator of the processes that were put into motion some time ago, rather than a radical changemaker. That is, that something that was inevitable to occur, has suddenly, without consultation, formed a clear, easiest and most logical path forward in a time of crises. The question that my colleague asked, as we talked on Zoom, was will we ever be able to return the genie back into the bottle? In a world heading towards ‘post-Covid-19’ realities, I will try to model my colleague’s thought towards a couple of scenarios that higher education has experienced. The first one is related to the sudden shift to online teaching and learning, including webinars as a way to disseminate research. The second idea relates to the thinking around international students and student mobility, which had been heralded, up to Covid-19, as a victory of globalization and an essential revenue stream for tertiary institutions. In the world pre-Covid-19, academics had received a clear nod from University administration that their programmes and courses should start being translated and slowly become part of online offerings. This policy push in higher education was sometimes a direct

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迈向Covid-19后的“新常态？”：身体和社会距离，转向在线和高等教育

最近，我和一位知名的同事举行了有趣的会议。几个月前，对于在同一机构工作的两位同事来说，这本来是一次不寻常的会议，现在已经成为“新常态” –我们在预定的Zoom会议上见了面。在会议上，她分享了她的观点，即Covid-19席卷了教育，但它对高等教育计划和政策的影响却是固有的灾难。这种突然的变化和对高等教育组成方式的直接改变，正在夺取教职员工和学生的空间，并改变了我们的生存方式和生存方式。但是，她认为，从某种意义上讲，Covid-19在某种程度上只是促成一段时间前启动的流程的加速器，而不是激进的变革者。也就是说，不可避免的事情突然发生了，未经协商，在危机时期形成了一条清晰，最容易，最合乎逻辑的前进道路。当我们在Zoom上进行讨论时，我的同事提出的问题是，我们是否能够将精灵返回瓶子？在一个走向“后Covid-19”现实的世界中，我将尝试将同事的思想模拟为高等教育经历的几种情况。第一个与突然转向在线教学有关，其中包括网络研讨会，作为传播研究的一种方式。第二个想法与围绕国际学生和学生流动性的思考有关，直到Covid-19为止，这种思想被认为是全球化的胜利和大专院校必不可少的收入来源。在Covid-19之前的世界中，学者们已经从大学行政部门那里得到了明确的点头，他们的课程和课程应该开始进行翻译，并逐渐成为在线课程的一部分。高等教育的政策推动有时是直接的