A whole lot of zooming going on

Plenty of people were studying on-line pre pandemic

The Australian Communications and Media Authority reports on-line activity from March ’20 (when COVID-19 restrictions kicked)-in to June 2020. The survey sticks to the broad-population but even at a macro-level it appears a bunch of people were already learning on-line.

“Study from home?” was not asked in June’19. But in June ‘20 44 per cent of the 18-54 sample were using the internet to study from home.  That’s not students, that’s all people in the age group.

And despite the rush to get classes on-line it seems it was not such a novelty. ACMA reports that 10 per cent of the total sample had first started studying from home during COVID-19, and while 46 per cent increased the activity, 35 per cent stayed the same.