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Strategic Leadership and Partnerships to Scale a Remote Teaching Infrastructure Rooted in Jesuit Values
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
Given Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies’ experience and success
marketing, recruiting for, developing, managing, and scaling online programs, in several distinct
ways, SCS led, coordinated, and contributed ...
Jumping the Great Chasm to Quality Online Learning At Scale: Strategic Change Management in a Time of Crisis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
The abrupt disruption to higher education that began in March 2020 continues to produce
opportunities to foster creativity and advance fundamental change. At one university in northern
California, the continuing education ...
Editor's Overview
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
Institutions that have been in the forefront of not only online but also of at-scale and affordable learning have been leaders of a “vertical” scale, where a limited number of programs and courses were built that sustain ...
Mechanisms for Supporting Emergency Remote Classes: Towards a Distributed Classroom
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
During the rapid emergency transition to remote classes in 2020, our online Master of Science
in Computer Science program supported the newly remote traditional classes in several ways.
In this chapter, we go over some ...
Horizontal Scaling: How Experience in MOOC Programs Helped a College Strategy in Emergency Response
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
This chapter shares an evaluation of the response to the “emergency remote teaching” situation
in March of 2020 due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus on how
capacity building in eLearning rendered ...
Fostering a Culture of Academic Innovation in a Time of Crisis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
COVID-19 has thrust much of higher education into a liminal space, where norms and
conventional wisdom no longer operate as they once did. While recognizing the devastating
societal effects wrought by the pandemic, viewing ...
Learning at-Scale, Affordability, and Access in a Post-COVID19 World
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
The essays in this volume and many other stories from the 2020 global pandemic
illustrate the challenges of urgent horizontal scale in technology mediated instruction. Many say
this experience will serve to accelerate ...
Horizontal Scaling of Online Learning in the Post-COVID19 Society: Reflections from Kerala
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
India’s nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown, which began on March 24, 2020, was relaxed in June
with the exception of educational institutions. However, the Government of the Kerala state took
a decision to reopen the schools ...
The Future of Learning is Blended
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
The adoption of online learning within universities has been sporadic and rare. However, with
the onset of COVID-19, higher ed institutions worldwide have been forced to switch from inperson
to online learning. This ...
Adapting Vertically-Scaled Solutions Across Many Georgia Tech Classes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)
The coronavirus pandemic prompted the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to
design a set of innovative trials focused on novel problems in delivering at-scale learning
horizontally. This chapter provides ...