Lecturing into your laptop is not nearly enough

As Nicholas says, interaction is key. Use videoconferencing for office hours and webinars to support the 'lecture recordings' and other material you've posted o line. You might want to try a flipped classroom, with information imparted by recordings and notes, and a webinar where students can put this newly-gained knowledge into use. This depends on what you are teaching, of course. Likewise you can run virtual labs - there are plenty simulations and recordings of experiments for many subjects available. When it comes to assessment, as well as quizzes and regular coursework, you can run 'takeaway' open book exams, where the students can access your question paper, write/type their answers and upload them within a restricted time period. Go for questions in which they have to figure something out actually USING their knowledge rather than testing it, seeing as they can just look stuff up. For things like project work, arrange for them to present via videoconferencing rather than face-to-face. Above all, have fun. Online learning shouldn't be dull. Include cartoons - stripgenerator.com is quite good for quick creation of cartoons, there are others - apposite music and more, and plenty of links to appropriate news stories, academic papers, etc. And when we are back to normal? Think of all the online support to your lecturehall delivery that you now have :)

Great insights by the author. Nonetheless, those in the global south are still confronted with issues high cost of internet data, unreliable connectivity, and the general tackiness of institutions to adopt and implement online modules of teaching and learning. Such challenges impede our efforts to effectively replicate those fine ideas as espoused by the author.