The specter and promise of online education is perhaps nowhere more deeply felt than in California, where campus administrators and instructors are faced with a bloodletting. University of California officials have suggested that the system will have to innovate out of the current financial crisis by expanding online programs. (State house analysts agree.) Instructors, meanwhile, are terrified that this is code for cutting their pay, or increasing their workloads, or outsourcing their jobs to interlopers, or replacing them with online teaching software...
Showing posts with label Inside Higher Ed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inside Higher Ed. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Around Academia: California Lecturers Union Attempts to Block Online Class Offerings
Insider Higher Ed takes a look at the controversy:
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Around Academia: Expanding Online Offerings at Public Universities
In Inside Higher Ed, former governors Jeb Bush and Jim Hunt argue we can't move online fast enough:
...today -- right now -- colleges and universities must embrace new digital and online delivery tools to make educational content available to degree-seeking students wherever they are, whenever they need it. Doing so will allow colleges and universities to raise revenue, increase access and contribute to America’s long-term competitiveness.
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