Directions: A statement is followed by two inferences I and II. You have to consider the statement to be true even if it seems at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given inferences, if any, follow from the given statement.

Statement: Every discipline is witnessing an increase in the volume of distance learning courses imparting online degrees, with remarkable pace. 

Inferences:

I. Online education is better than conventional classroom teaching.

II. Increase in online education is a makeshift arrangement in response to the Pandemic.