During the pandemic, the variety of students learning online “absolutely increased,” said Di Xu, an associate professor of higher education and public policy at the University of California, Irvine, who began doing research into online learning before Covid. That makes it easier to objectively determine “who seems to benefit and who struggles the most,” Professor Xu said.

Citation: Jon Marcus, “With Online Learning, ‘Let’s Take a Breath and See What Worked and Didn’t Work.’” The New York Times, October 6, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/education/learning/online-learning-higher-education.html