How to reconcile assessment processes, and teaching and learning styles?
• Invest in coordination, planning, and, especially, training local faculty and staff. • Ensure more-than-adequate training and support for students to ensure high comfort levels. • Evaluate, a priori, different learning traditions and approaches and have a clear pedagogical strategy for reconciling differences among heterogeneous groups. • Ensure no significant disparities in access to learning materials, or structure coursework to ameliorate them. Strategic Issue 4: Technologies Which delivery media mix? How to predict changes in local access or capacity relative to the United States? • Scale communications and software to shared levels. Ensure no student group is excluded by the choice of technology. • Invest in developing local, in-house capacity to support and train in new and upcoming technologies. • Be especially flexible in your mix of media. Build into course design the ability to substitute one system with another in event of failures or miscalculations of local capacity (for
