Four groups join forces to advocate for quality online education. There is a new National Council for Online Education, and it is stepping up its profile just as colleges race to remote teaching in response to the Covid-19 crisis. It’s doing so, one of its leaders told me, to make clear that this “duct tape version of online” is recognized for what it is: an emergency response to a crisis and not what’s considered a program of quality. That characterization comes courtesy of Robert Hansen, chief executive of UPCEA, an association for professional, continuing, and online education. Upcea is one of four groups that make up the council, along with the Online Learning Consortium, Quality Matters, and the Wiche Cooperative for Educational Technologies.
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