The Evolution of Compliance for State Authorization of Distance Education
The State Authorization Network (SAN) is pleased to release a very thorough examination of state authorization of distance education through the lens of a colleague who witnessed many steps in the development of consumer protections for students participating in interstate distance education.
Today, we welcome the author of the paper, Sharyl Thompson, who offers us summarized insight into the very complicated and nuanced compliance road for state authorization of interstate distance education.
Sharyl is a long-time colleague and friend of SAN who not only witnessed but was an active participant in this evolution. In addition to the experience that Sharyl offers in her biography, which is shared at the end of the paper, Sharyl served as one of SAN’s Basics’ Workshop mentors for many years and has been a regular presenter and contributor to SAN. Sharyl was also among those on the initial team that worked on the reciprocity idea for state authorization of distance education that ultimately became SARA. You can read more about this initial team for reciprocity and the beginnings of SAN in our WCET Frontiers post celebrating the 10th Anniversary of SAN in 2021.
A big thank you to Sharyl for developing this thorough paper chronicling the evolution of state authorization of distance education and for sharing the following summary today on Frontiers. [...]