Surviving Emergencies: Developing a Personalized Research-Based Technology Plan

The 2020 COVID 19 pandemic situation forced our society to consider different ways to accomplish work and education. Many employees and learners personally invested in various technologies in their homes in order to fulfill work and educational commitments. Meanwhile, a considerable number of organizations struggled with assisting associates to adapt to alternative ways of accomplishing meaningful work and educational success within home environments. Education leaders cannot always anticipate the arrival of an emergency, but they can develop a practice-based plan to survive an unforeseen situation. Using a strong, instructionally designed model, we created a process these leaders may follow to consider research-based ideas and best practices to create emergency survival plans for their organizations. This simple, structured plan begins with developing a delivery management system to connect instructors and learners in remote settings. Next, we provide strategies to manage online instructional and learning tools. Once everyone is connected and tools are selected, the plan moves forward to address online course design and development. Next, we provide guidelines to select the appropriate delivery process for the prepared courses. In addition, this section addresses the creation of a professional learning module for instructional designers, including trainers and classroom instructors. Finally, a re-entry process is created by developing a continuum learning plan.

Vavřička and Others v. The Czech Republic

For the Court, this conclusion was bolstered by the observations that vaccination was not administered against the will of the applicants;that there is no consensus between member states over a single model to achieve the highest level of vaccination;that the introduction of a legal duty to vaccinate children raises sensitive moral or ethical issues;and that the case concerns matters of healthcare policy (paras. 276–79). [...]the Court considered that the measure satisfied the proportionality test. Furthermore, the Court underlined the temporal nature of the exclusion, as all children—also when not vaccinated—can still be enrolled in primary school (para. 307). [...]the Court concluded that the Czech Republic had not overstepped its margin of appreciation and consequently that there was no violation of the right to private life (paras. 310–11). [...]the Court held, also by sixteen votes to one, that it was unnecessary to examine separately the complaints of the five child applicants under Article 2, Protocol No. 1 in light of the previous findings under Article 8 (para. 345).