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The risk of cooptation – of being absorbed by powerful elites without gaining new advantages – is an important concern in studies of social movements and social change. Through cooptation, elites undermine movements by stripping them of their credibility as agents of change.

In a study published in the American Psychological Association’s journal Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, researchers at York University, Hadassah Academic College in Israel and Oakland University examined the extent to which an abrupt transition to online learning is impacting post-secondary students who are trying to learn as the pandemic continues to unfold. They studied a sample of 1,217 college students from Israel who completed an online questionnaire after transitioning to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.