Business Continuity Planning for Distance Education
Distance Ed Disaster Preparedness
Events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina have brought business continuity planning to the forefront of organizational practice.
Businesses that had plans for serving customers during a disruption survived those events, while those that did not often failed.
Every day events such as power loss, fire, or hardware failure require systems for continuing service to keep customers.
Distance education units are particularly vulnerable to business disruptions:
- Their reliance on technology to deliver education makes it easier to lose connection with their students.
- Distance students can more readily go elsewhere than residential students.
With proper direction, any distance education unit can develop its own plan and this seminar will help you with that planning.
Knowledge benefits for you in this 90 minute seminar:
- Prepare your distance education unit to continue after an emergency
- Understand how an emergency would affect your unit’s operations
- Create a business continuity plan for your unit
- Overcome obstacles to developing and implementing this plan
- Train staff in the use of the plan
- Update the plan to ensure it stays current with technology
- Create emergency response policies
Who will benefit:
- Distance education administrators
- Security administrators
- Student service administrators
- Facilities personnel
- Business planning staff

Recorded: 6/3/2008
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Audio with PowerPoint
3 WAYS TO ORDER:
- Supplemental Materials
- PowerPoint Handouts
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