Wired For Learning

It’s been a year since the first UK lockdown and we’re all still stuck at home. We’ve watched everything on Netflix – twice, lost weight and gained it again, and none of us can bear to see our pals’ faces on Zoom any longer. And no more banana bread, please. To fill the void, people have ditched their culinary endeavours and turned to online courses instead. Online learning platform Shaw Academy had just over 143,000 people registered for courses in 2019. But in 2020, this figure shot up to a massive 980,000, with photography, graphic design and nutrition the most popular courses. A lot of us are using all this time indoors to learn something new.