The Regulatory Issues Administrators Are Thinking About While Faculty Design Online Courses – every learner everywhere
Idea in brief:
This article aims to help college and university faculty understand the complex regulatory issues that new distance learning programs must account for. It summarizes for faculty a new comprehensive policy playbook written for administrators.
While college and university faculty are planning new courses and programs, they may not be aware that administrators are anticipating how they must guide the program through a maze of complex regulatory requirements. This is especially important as virtually every higher education institution is reworking its educational model in substantial ways in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Because it has been necessary to launch online courses and programs quickly, many (but not all) regulatory requirements have been waived or temporarily suspended, but administrators have to maintain documentation of the changes they are making and may eventually have to submit these programs for regulatory review.
The numerous organizations that colleges and universities must answer to can be summarized as the “regulatory triad.” This model is presented in a new policy publication, Pursuing Regulatory Compliance for Digital Instruction in Response to COVID-19: Policy Playbook. This comprehensive 74-page guide was developed by WCET — The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, in partnership with Every Learner Everywhere.