Trinity College Dublin hopes to welcome back students for in-person learning next semester.
It comes after reports suggested that lectures for large numbers would be moved online, while some buildings would be sold.
Lectures for third level students nationwide have largely been held online since September.
However, Provost of Trinity College, Dr Patrick Prendergast, said he is hopeful that in-person teaching can resume next semester.
Despite this, he added that large scale lectures of a few hundred people may be a thing of the past.
Speaking on Newstalk Breakfast, he said a draft discussion paper was circulating among university committees to gauge from staff and students what changes they would like to see on the delivery of education after the pandemic.
Ideas such as moving lectures online on a more permanent basis and selling off buildings "are being floated" as part of these discussions, he added.
He said: "Things will change after the pandemic and we need to be ahead of this in working out how best to do those changes and doing them in a way that helps us to deliver what we do in education and research.
"We hope in the next semester, as restrictions ease and as we understand better the transmission of the virus, we hope we will be able to bring back more in-person teaching.
"At the moment we have in-person teaching where it's essential for pedagogical reasons, in labs and practicals and so on, but next semester we would really like to be able to bring in in-person teaching where students would benefit from it.
"We recognise very much that in-person teaching is very important for students' wellbeing and welfare and for that reason, if we can at all, every student should have the opportunity to do in-person teaching."
Dr Prendergast said it is possible that the "era of the big lecture" of 400 students in a lecture theatre may be better delivered online.
He said he has heard from some students that they get more out of a big class delivered online than in the lecture hall.
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Dr Prendergast added that the university had "not proposed to sell any historic campus buildings".
However, he explained that like most universities in Ireland, Trinity buys and sells buildings off-campus and that will continue.
Meanwhile, sculptures of women are to be installed in the Old Library for the first time.
Dr Prendergast says four new busts will now join the 40 sculptures of men.
He said: "When Prince Harry and Meghan visited about a year ago, it was her that first said to me, she looked at this long list of male busts, 20 on one side and 20 on the other, and she said, where the women, Provost?
"This had been raised before but I think it was at that stage we decided we must do something about it."
