They will eventually come to the conclusion that videotaped lectures of excellent quality should be the method. The Great Courses company already follows this model in marketing lectures on many topics. They do not market themselves as any sort of "college" -- but some system of formal education should be set up where students get serious quality at a low price.
And, to state the obvious: Once you have a truly excellent teacher present a really thorough lecture series on (let's say) Algebra II, or Causes of WWI, or whatever -- once that has been filmed, then you are done with that topic. For, maybe, 50 years. It's all free content after that. No professor salary, no tenure, no nothing.
You want to get rid of the student debt problem? Videotape.
Of course some live interaction between students and low level faculty would be needed, but no more Professors making $400,000 a year for teaching 1 class.
Videotaped, or rather, streamed lectures are certainly adequate. But anyone who really wants to learn something, has to actually go and learn it. There are plenty of ways to do this besides watching a lecture. A lecture should just get you motivated and learn where to start.
From there, you need to crack a book or two, do some peer to peer study discussions just in the same way that business people do teleconferencing to brainstorm. Seek out other sources. There are many ways to learn.
I saw a commercial today for this: https://www.k12.com/
The left “sees the virus as an opportunity to reshape the country”. There is no reason Conservatives can’t try to do the same. We are still teaching kids the same way we have done it for 200 years. It is anachronistic and does a disservice to the kids. Time to break the public school monopoly and switch to voucher system. There isn’t any real reason for a kid to have to attend the same school every day. They could attend 2 or 3 different schools each week, each to drill down on different subjects of interest or fields they need to catch up on.