Matthew Loveless, associate professor of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Bologna and co-director of the Center for Research and Social Progress, pointed out that online teaching, as a way of teaching, can adapt to the time of different students in different regions. What is different from the usual online teaching is that, first of all, these students are not just online students, but active students; secondly, the university systems in the Emilia-Romagna and Veneto regions of Italy are not In two weeks, the physical experience of the students was turned into an online experience-no matter what standard is measured, this is an impressive feat.
(Excerpt from Inside Higher ED, https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/03/11/professor-italy-describes-life-there-during-coronavirus-opinion, March 11, 2020)