Moving Horizontally: The New Dimensions of At-Scale Learning at the Time of COVID-19
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Moving Horizontally: The New Dimensions of At-Scale Learning at the Time of COVID-19
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Thinking and Acting at Scale for Internal University Services
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)It is too early to understand the total impact of COVID-19 on higher education. For many institutions in the United States, the pandemic meant an almost immediate move to remote instruction, using online delivery at a ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Transforming Higher Education through COVID-19 Crisis: Experiences and Opportunities in The Netherlands
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Large-scale online education plays a minor role in campus education in the Netherlands or most European higher education (HE) institutions. The COVID-19 crisis enabled two Dutch frontrunners in open and online education ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Louisiana Tech University Today and Sprinting Towards Tomorrow
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)As a primarily residential, high research institution, Louisiana Tech University is proud of the creativity and innovation that have been hallmarks of its residential student experience and rich academic environment since ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Social and Economic Imperatives Driving the Need to Scale Access to Education and Training Across the Lifespan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)This chapter "sets the stage" for the substantive chapters in this book. It describes the meta forces shaping the who, what and how higher education institutions can continue to be relevant and responsive in a rapidly ... -
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 ... -
Foreword to Moving Horizontally: The New Dimensions of at-Scale Learning in the Time of COVID-19
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02)Foreword to the e-book Moving Horizontally: The New Dimensions of At-Scale Learning at the Time of COVID-19.
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