I feel pretty strongly about this. After being more than productive during the Covid shutdown, office workers were forced to return to the office (at their own time and expense) in the name of... well, not productivity. Where I worked it was clear that productivity was not the issue. We were told stories about 'culture' and 'collaboration' - in an office where I would work a full day without seeing anyone else on my team (except, of course, online). "Leaders say they want culture, mentorship, innovation and accountability. But workers increasingly hear 'surveillance,' 'attrition' and a quiet test of 'loyalty.'" I think the same is true of online learning. Admittedly, this is a harder case to make, since a lot of what passed for online learning during the pandemic was just classroom instruction over Zoom (and therefore, equally unbearable). But I think that a lot of the motivation for in-person learning has to do with control, and not student growth, learning or development.
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