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.

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