New guidance from SACS addresses distance learning. Just added to the web in January 2010, the document relates 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' Instituitional Resources is on the SACS-COC web site:
http://www.sacscoc.org/inst_forms_and_info1.asp
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