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As dozens of colleges and universities

canceled face-to-face classes and Subscribe
moved to online delivery of these

classes since March 9th
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education), the US postsecondary
Two out of five US
system appears to already be entering
college presidents
the next phase. already considering
online options for Fall
Phase 1: The Rush to Zoom 2020 term (podcast)
Phase 1 could be considered as all- Traversing the Edge of

Chaos: Phase 3 and 4
hands-on-deck, do whatever you can to
preparations for post
have some educational presence for all COVID-19 world
classes online. Commenters have
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rightly
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Higher Ed Should Rise
pointed to the Challenge of
[https://www.chronicle.com/article/Academ Offering Greater
s-Coronavirus-Shock/248238] out Student-centered
Flexibility
[https://anygoodthing.com/2020/03/12/ple
do-a-bad-job-of-putting-your-courses- Two out of five US
online/comment-page-1/] that students’ college presidents
already considering
and educators’ health and safety are
online options for Fall
more important than worrying about 2020 term
quality course design or even equitable
access. In the EdTech world, think of Massive Increase in
LMS and Synchronous
this phase as Put everything on Zoom
Video Usage Due to
and worry about details later. COVID-19
Substitute Microsoft Teams or Webex
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or Collaborate for Zoom, as so many
Higher Ed’s Online
instructors opt for the comfort of Response to COVID-
synchronous video discussions to 19
replace the face-to-face experience.
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Trenches: The ‘second
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19 transition to remote
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university shutdowns
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It is important to recognize, however,

2U, Blackboard
that we have yet to see the actual spike OpenLMS, and the
in online delivery of these classes. Continuing Wave of
Thanks to the timing of the migration EdTech Buyout Activity
around many Spring Break, many

Impact or Headlines: In
schools have extended or moved these EdTech they’re not
breaks, with actual online courses always aligned
starting next week or the following
Concordia University
week. This timing coincides with the Portland Closure:
end of winter term for many quarter- There’s more to the
based school calendars, with the story
biggest impact thus far on end-of-term

Instructure CEO Dan
exams. Goldsmith Resigns
and New Approach for
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Alexander, Ithaka S+R, et al, it is likely
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that the actual spike will occur on one fails to get votes to
of the following Mondays (Mar 23 or approve Thoma Bravo
30), more than doubling the number of acquisition
emergency online courses by

State of Higher Ed
enrollment and by number of LMS Market for US
institutions. and Canada: Year-End
2019 Edition
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in Hyperspace
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I would not be surprised to hear of
service disruptions for some EdTech Academic Partnerships
platforms. Blackboard
At the same time, it has become quite Brightspace Canvas
apparent this week that any view of Clayton Christensen
these emergency shutdowns ad online

College Closures
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migrations as only taking a few weeks is
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mistaken. We are likely at the point
Coronavirus
where the full spring term for both
semester and quarter-based Covid-19 D2L
institutions will be delivered fully online, Data Visualization
if at all. And there are plenty of scienti c

distance education
analyses suggesting that the
e-Literate EdTech
disruptions will last at least until late
Summer. The Chancellor for the equity Instructure
California Community Colleges issues IPEDS

this guidance on Monday
Kaplan Higher
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move classes online for at least OER

the next several weeks, but
Online Education
Oakley said during Monday’s
OPM OPM Market
Board of Governors meeting
Pearson Embanet
that those timelines will likely
need to be extended until June PowerSchool
“at the very least.” Praesidium
Commencement ceremonies Private Equity
will also likely need to be Purdue Online
delayed, canceled or
Purdue University
postponed, as will large events,
Purdue University
meetings and conferences, he
Global
added.
Remote Teaching
Oakley also said colleges Sakai Schoology
“should plan for a second Student Debt
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around August or September.”

Wiley Deltak
“That’s why we’re telling our

colleges to really think through
not just this academic year, but Categories
next academic year as well and
how that might impact Author Clay Shirky
instruction,” Oakley said. Author Evangeline

Cummings
Author Jeanette
Phase 2: LMS Integration and Wiseman
Addressing Equitable Access
Author Kevin Kelly
What I believe is happening is that we Author Laura
are entering the next phase, where it is Czerniewicz
no longer acceptable to ignore issues of Author O'Neal
equitable access and course design. In Spicer
our work with schools we are seeing a Author Phil Hill
signi cant shift this week in the focus Blog
on doing more than handling the pure Blog Readings
emergency delivery. Colleges and
universities are starting to more fully
deal with the question of quality of
emergency online delivery of courses,
as well as true contingency planning.
This shift in emphasis coincides with US

Department of Education guidance
[https://www2.ed.gov/about/o ces/list/ocr
coronavirus-fact-sheet.pdf] on Covid-19
transitions. The department has
allowed blanket approvals for moves
online for this term and next
(essentially, through the spring) as well
as relaxing of nancial aid rules,
allowing great exibility for schools to
respond to the emergency. What they
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have not done, however, is ignore
issues such as accessibility for students.
As CooleyEd has summarized
[https://ed.cooley.com/2020/03/18/managi
covid-19-disruption-online-accessibility-
and-anti-discrimination-in-schools/] :
Schools must ensure equal

access to educational
programs for students with
disabilities. That basic
requirement will not be relaxed
in light of the COVID-19
outbreak and indeed may
become even more critical as
schools move online. [snip]
Online delivery: Schools that

move their programs and
services online in response to
COVID-19 need to ensure that
students with disabilities can
participate in programs,
activities and services in the
same manner as other
students. Individuals with
disabilities must be able to
acquire the same information,
engage in the same
interactions and enjoy the
same programs and activities
as their nondisabled peers with
substantially equivalent ease of
use. As examples, these
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programs and services such as
remote coursework or any app
services, technology or other
software used to provide
programs and services.
While programs and services

must be accessible to
individuals with all types of
disabilities, at a minimum,
schools likely need to con rm
the availability of the most
common accessibility features,
such as captioning video
content and coursework, and
con rm that screen-reader
technology can be used on the
school’s web content. OCR’s
webinar outlines OCR’s
expectations and resources
with respect to online
accessibility.
We are also seeing a grown movement

of students asking for refunds on room
& board and questioning whether they
should pay full price for an educational
delivery they did not agree to. Richard
Arum and Mitchell Stevens noted this
point today in the New York Times
[https://www-nytimes-
com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes
education-coronavirus.amp.html] .
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formats bring their own risks.
When poorly designed and
bereft of genuine human
attentiveness, online delivery
can be disastrous for students
who are not well prepared for
college-level coursework.
Inequitable outcomes will
almost surely result if the
makeshift approaches being
used to weather the current
crisis continue inde nitely.
In the EdTech world, think of this new

phase as Make sure Zoom or Microsoft
Teams is integrated with the campus
LMS, and someone gure out how to do
transcriptions and make allowances for
low bandwidth and phone-only access.
For better or worse, the modern LMS
was designed to handle privacy,
reporting, course rosters, and
documented interactions with students.
Things that are not sexy but are
required by federal and state
regulations, and more importantly,
things that should be done as soon and
as well as feasible. I am not sure how
well the rushed Zoom usage will hold
up when dealing with lower-income
students.
It is important for institutions to quickly

nd ways to at least begin ensuring
equitable access and questioning how
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to improve the quality of online

delivery, even during this emergency.
Phase 3: The New Normal

This section will be short because, well,
there’s a lot we don’t know. But at the
very least be aware that the old normal
is gone. The impacts of Covid-19 on
higher education are irreversible – it’s
chaotic now, but a new normal will
emerge. Perhaps not for a year, but it
will emerge.
If you haven’t done so, read Laura

Czerniewicz’s guest post
[https://philonedtech.com/what-we-
learnt-from-going-online-during-
university-shutdowns-in-south-africa/]
from Monday sharing lessons learned
from emergency shutdowns in South
Africa in 2015-17.
We ourselves had to learn new

technologies very fast. For
example, we had never used
online proctoring for exams
before and learnt how complex
it is. A lot of administrative
planning and organisation
needed to go in beforehand, in
addition to the myriad of other
issues it raises. Video
conferencing was the executive
response to going online
overnight, but it didn’t factor in
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relative a ordability of data.
We generally recommended
more asynchronous
communication and less
bandwidth-intensive solutions.
In general, the technical advice

was to use existing systems,
use what students have, and
keep it simple. We also learned
more and at rst hand how our
current technology o erings
were experienced by
academics and students in
terms of ease of use and
usability allowing us to re ect
and plan for future needs.
In the meantime, at least we’re nding

some humorous examples describing
the need for quickly improving online
course delivery.
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Market was afraid, I was
petri ed
Kept thinking I could never

teach through Canvas all the
time
But then I spent so nights

reading the help docs for so
long
And I grew strong, I learned

how to get along
And I love this McSweeney’s article

[https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welc
to-your-hastily-prepared-online-college-
course] as well.
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of the exam to you. When you
open it, the formatting will be
all messed up. Please print out
the 27-page exam, complete it
in blue or black ink, then take it
to Kinkos and have them fax it
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the exam in two hours. If I
understood a conversation I
overheard in the hall correctly,
you can time yourself with an
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Consulting and“TikTok.” It should

Market Analysis be available
on your mobile telephones.
It is remarkable how fast change has

been thrust at colleges and universities
in the past week and a half, and it is
equally remarkable how quickly schools
are reacting. People are pulling
together with heroic e orts. But the job
only gets more di cult as we enter this
second phase.
Stay well.
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the second phase Email Address*

As dozens of colleges and universities

moved to online delivery of these

Phase 1 could be considered as all- Traversing the Edge of

A View From The

It is important to recognize, however,

around many Spring Break, many

biggest impact thus far on end-of-term

emergency online courses by

At the same time, it has become quite Brightspace Canvas

apparent this week that any view of Clayton Christensen

these emergency shutdowns ad online

institutions will be delivered fully online, Data Visualization

if at all. And there are plenty of scienti c

California Community Colleges issues IPEDS

chancellor-says/626065] : Learn Ultra

Most colleges in the system LMS Market M&A

have already made plans to mindwires Moodle

move classes online for at least OER

“at the very least.” Praesidium

Commencement ceremonies Private Equity

will also likely need to be Purdue Online

Oakley also said colleges Sakai Schoology

“should plan for a second Student Debt

Consulting andpeak” ofAnalysis

around August or September.”

“That’s why we’re telling our

instruction,” Oakley said. Author Evangeline

This shift in emphasis coincides with US

Schools must ensure equal

Online delivery: Schools that

While programs and services

We are also seeing a grown movement

Consulting andWe alsoAnalysis

In the EdTech world, think of this new

It is important for institutions to quickly

to improve the quality of online

Phase 3: The New Normal

If you haven’t done so, read Laura

We ourselves had to learn new

Consulting andunequal digital Services:

In general, the technical advice

In the meantime, at least we’re nding

I Will Survive, Coronavirus version

Consulting andAt rst IAnalysis

Kept thinking I could never

But then I spent so nights

And I grew strong, I learned

And I love this McSweeney’s article

I will email a Word 93 version

Consulting and“TikTok.” It should

It is remarkable how fast change has

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