The (continuing) impact of Covid-19 An editorial

At the start of the new academic year, we can reflect upon a ‘full Covid academic year’, i.e., an academic year’20-’21 that has been fully affected by Covid-19. At the start of the pandemic, there was the idea that Covid-19 would have a short impact: teaching was going digital (with all issues relating to exams), yet the idea was that would not last long. During the Spring semester, many institutions started to realize that the pandemic would have a large impact upon the upcoming academic year, which required digital teaching and examinations on a more structural basis. This required different didactical approaches, adoptions of exam regulations as well as new technical skills from professors and lecturers, and a more organized approach to online course delivery. Now, we have had students in a 1-year master program that may have never met any professor in the program in person. And students that have started their bachelor program ‘at the wrong time’ (i.e., September 2019) have had more classes online than onsite.