For better and worse, the COVID-19 crisis will necessarily advance a number of instrumental responses for online education under the global shutdown of face-to-face classrooms. COVID-19 has accelerated but did not begin the move to online education. This essay asks its readers to consider the online environment and the shutdown of face-to-face (f2f) classrooms as a condition that represents "a new vantage" for thinking, and particularly so for re-imagining and perhaps re-visioning f2f pedagogies.