How To Manage Compliance Of Your Distance Education Program?


Distance learning or E-Learning is learning utilizing electronic technology to access the educational curriculum outside of a traditional classroom. In most cases, it refers to a course, program or degree delivered online. There are many terms used to describe learning that is delivered online, via the internet, ranging from Distance Education to computerized electronic learning, online learning, internet learning and many others. E-Learning is defined as the courses which are specifically delivered through the internet to somewhere other than the classroom where the professor is teaching.

For delivering distance education program in the United States, institutions required to obtain approval for the regulated activities in a particular state. These activities may include - online learning, practical experiences, faculty teaching from another state, marketing, advertising and more. The requirement as to which activities require authorization, the application process and the cost to comply vary greatly from state to state. Besides this authorization is not a one-shot process, it needs to be revised regularly owing to ever-changing requirements and varying renewal requirements.



E-Learning Compliance by Inknowledge

 E-Learning Compliance application assists an institution like university and college in the management of their authorization process. The application assists in the broad areas of tracking authorization processes and current status of authorization for each State Authorization Agency, maintaining a database of online programs, faculty, students and other related data as needed, collecting information from university staff, students and faculty via user-friendly online forms, managing all documentation and communication exchanged with state authorization agency, generating predefined reports in a dashboard-style format with multiple drill-down levels and generating to-do’s and updates to helps university staff stay updated with the authorization process.

Features of E-Learning Compliance:

1. WIth E-Learning Compliance, you can get started with ready to use and comprehensive database of state agencies or entities and licensure boards covering over 35 different professions.

2. The physical presence tracker in E-Learning Compliance application helps in recording and tracking all business, employment, advertisement, instruction and recruitment activities by the program.

3. The student information system of an institution can be directly integrated with E-Learning Compliance, so you can slice and dice your student enrollment data as per your requirement.

4. A repository of all your program related information is provided in the E-Learning Compliance application so that program-related information can also be maintained by your program coordinators.

5. The E-Learning Compliance application provides a one-stop solution to manage the licensure requirements with actual hours specification as per the states and programs.

6. The reports in E-Learning Compliance helps you to gather analytical information and derive insights from it.

7. The tools and services in E-Learning Compliance help to save your time with auto-reminders, to-dos and automatic website publishing.


Note: The author of this article is working with Inknowledge Inc.

For more details, please visit our official website Inknowledge Inc. You can also contact us at info@inknowledge.com.

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