A Primer on the Arnold Ventures-funded Coalition
Phil Hill
August 8, 2024
You can’t understand today’s EdTech regulatory news without connecting the dots
Yesterday Inside Higher Ed covered the proposed rules by the US Department of Education (ED) that will require online attendance taking. Not just for online programs but for all online courses. The title captures the sentiment well – “Colleges Balk at Federal Plan to Require Attendance Taking in Online Courses.”
Taking attendance would not be as simple as students logging into the learning management system or stating “here” at the beginning of each class session. Every 14 days, students would be expected to turn in an assignment or interact with a professor or fellow students during lectures and course discussions, although the department has yet to define exactly what mechanism or standard it would require colleges to use to align with the new policy.
