Unbound education: Curriculum no longer confined by time and space

The pandemic broke down barriers to changing educational practice and highlighted discrepancies in how we taught and how the modern student learns. Increased learner autonomy showed us the power of self-regulated learning, while isolation showed us the importance of social learning. Embracing these elements in a post-COVID era and accepting new roles as educators will allow us to create a learning environment that increases student motivation and harnesses learner interaction. The pandemic also shed light on institutional resource inequities, but the transition to online education showed us opportunities to re-imagine how programs, disciplines, and institutions might collaboratively educate the future work-force. Beyond the curriculum, a new holistic approach to college admissions that left behind standardised testing produced a more diverse and qualified applicant pool for 2021. We now need to support this progress with a holistic approach to learning and assessment. While the pandemic illuminated a pathway to evidence-based approaches, equitable education, and universal design, whether we take that path is now our choice.