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NEWARK, NJ, April 24, 2024 Edge’s Chief Digital Learning Officer, Joshua Gaul, joins an esteemed group of distance learning practitioners, vendors, and individuals with an academic interest in distance learning pedagogy, on the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Public Policy Committee. 

USDLA is the premier professional membership organization designed to advocate and support the needs of distance education leaders. USDLA’s resources support the Distance Education Professional Community who serve education, business, health, and government. Founded in 1987, its vision and mission to advocate, research, and share best practices in the utilization of distance learning modalities in education, business, health, and government nationally and internationally continues today.

Notes Gaul, Chief Digital Learning Officer, Edge, “I’m proud to join the diverse group of members on the USDLA’s Public Policy Committee. Our shared passion for all-things-distance-learning will enable us to focus on the countless public policy issues related to digital/distance learning that are top-of-mind with the USDLA Board of Directors and its members.”

“I’m proud to join the diverse group of members on the USDLA’s Public Policy Committee. Our shared passion for all-things-distance-learning will enable us to focus on the countless public policy issues related to digital/distance learning that are top-of-mind with the USDLA Board of Directors and its members.”

— Joshua Gaul
Chief Digital Learning Officer, Edge

Josh will serve as a presenter at the 2024 National Conference for the 37th edition of the National Distance Learning Conference. With a theme of Gateway to the Future of Distance and Digital Learning, the event will take place June 17-20, 2024 at the Marriott St. Louis Grand. Josh’s presentation, Sustainable Online Learning for All: Developing and Accelerating High-Quality Online Programs with Nonprofit Consortium will take place June 18 at 3:30 pm. Those interested in registering for the event, may do so via https://usdla.org/2024-conference-registration/.

To learn more about the USDLA, visit https://usdla.org/about/history/


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Edge serves as a member-owned, nonprofit provider of high performance optical fiber networking and internetworking, Internet2, and a vast array of best-in-class technology solutions for cybersecurity, educational technologies, cloud computing, and professional managed services. Edge provides these solutions to colleges and universities, K-12 school districts, government entities, hospital networks and nonprofit business entities as part of a membership-based consortium. Edge’s membership spans the northeast, along with a growing list of EdgeMarket participants nationwide. Edge’s common good mission ensures success by empowering members for digital transformation with affordable, reliable and thought-leading purpose-built, advanced connectivity, technologies and services.