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Thursday, March 21, 2019
A Visit from the Risk Management Office: Identifying the most important risks facing online learning programs - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed
In our field, we have a wide array of risks -- technological infrastructure within and outside the university, including bandwidth, physical interruptions due to hurricane, tornado, earthquake or related natural disasters; policy and regulatory at the state and federal levels; accessibility shortcomings; global malware challenges; online, in-class verbal sexist, gender-preference, racist and analogous abuse; academic integrity issues; competitive risks in meeting game-changing new models of degree and certificate offerings; and maintaining our reputation as leaders in the field. These are the things we think about when we wake up in the middle of the night. These are the what-if challenges that are always in the back of our minds.
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/online-trending-now/identifying-and-mitigating-most-important-risks-online