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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...