SACS+&+OnlineEd

New guidance from SACS addresses distance learning. Just added to the web in January 2010, the documents relate standards to likely documentation with these headings: Expectations, Questions / Considerations (in question form), and Best Practices (with helpful level of specificity). Direct links to the pertinent PDF files:

//Guidelines added in 2010:// Distance Education and the Principles of Accreditation: Documenting Compliance @http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/081705/Distance%20Education%20and%20the%20Principles%20of%20Accreditation.pdf

//Policy Statement from 1997, updated 2006, endorsed 2009:// Distance and Correspondence Education @http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/081705/distance%20education.pdf

The full set of SACS' Institutional Resources is on the SACS-COC web site: @http://www.sacscoc.org/inst_forms_and_info1.asp