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The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that colleges and universities are far more agile and resilient than many previously believed. How do we sustain our technology advancements into the future?
Earlier this year, colleges and universities across the globe were disrupted like never before, according to
Literally over a weekend, faculty and staff moved instruction and support services entirely online. In many cases, institutions were well positioned to conduct remote instruction and work. In other cases, institutions had no choice but to rapidly ramp up new digital services to support a host of instructional and administrative functions. In both cases, we learned that our colleges and universities are far more agile and resilient than we may have previously believed.
The question now is, how can we sustain this agility and resilience? How do we build on both the technology innovations and the technology adoptions as higher education institutions plan for resuming normal operations sometime in the future? How can we exploit the best outcomes of our pandemic responses to create the institutions needed for the future of education, workforce development, and research?
Five colleagues from community colleges around the United States share their plans for capturing the successes realized in their pandemic response and what they plan to do to sustain those advancements...
The COVID-19 pandemic drove colleges and universities to rapidly refine processes that had once been considered sacrosanct. Although not all ideas were practical or readily scalable, higher education institutions learned to accelerate the adoption of new technologies for instruction and services. We must now sustain these advancements in the new normal.
Source: EDUCAUSE Review
