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Online Learning is a Way of Constraining the Spread of COVID-19

My Contact North I Contact Nord colleagues continue to monitor developments related to COVID-19 and reflect on online learning as a supportive tool. Following are some of our evolving thoughts.

The “traditional” rationale for online learning includes 

  • an access argument 
  • an affordability argument
  • a flexibility argument
  • a pedagogical argument
  • a lifelong learning argument

Now we can add a new argument: online learning is a way of constraining the spread of a communicable virus like COVID-19.

Read more in the PDF.

 

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