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“I Don’t Think the System Will Ever be the Same”: Distance Education Leaders’ Predictions and Recommendations for the Use of Online Learning in Community Colleges Post-COVID

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: While the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the short-term use of online courses, colleges' experiences with COVID-era online course delivery may also affect the way that they offer and approach online courses going forward.We draw on interviews with 35 distance education leaders from the California Community Colleges system to provide insights into how the use of online education may change in the system going forward.Leaders predicted that post-pandemic, colleges would increase their online course offerings, and that many instructional innovations to online courses from the pandemic-such as the use of synchronous courses-would persist.We discuss implications for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.

Source: The Journal of Higher Education

DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2024.2347810

Authors: Cassandra M.D. Hart, Michael Hill, Emily Alonso, Di Xu

Institutions: University of California System, University of California, Davis, University of California, Irvine

Language: English

Topic: Online and Blended Learning

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Spencer Foundation, University of California, Davis, University of California, Irvine