Document Type
Article
Publication Title
The Journal of Higher Education
ISSN
1538-4640
DOI
10.1080/00221546.2024.2347810
First Page
1
Last Page
25
Publication Date
5-8-2024
Abstract
While the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the short-term useof online courses, colleges’ experiences with COVID-era onlinecourse delivery may also affect the way that they offer andapproach online courses going forward. We draw on interviewswith 35 distance education leaders from the CaliforniaCommunity Colleges system to provide insights into how theuse of online education may change in the system going for-ward. Leaders predicted that post-pandemic, colleges wouldincrease their online course offerings, and that many instruc-tional innovations to online courses from the pandemic—suchas the use of synchronous courses—would persist. We discussimplications for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers.
Recommended Citation
Hart, C. M.,
Hill, M.,
Alonso, E.,
&
Xu, D.
(2024).
“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.
The Journal of Higher Education, , 1–25.
DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2024.2347810
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/ed-facarticles/224
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