UC Professors Skeptical Of On Line Education

When the University of California dangled a $30,000 incentive to thousands of professors in 2010 inviting them to create UC-worthy online courses, just 70 responded, and only a few classes materialized.

Faculty members at California State University were similarly skeptical and warned of “Walmartization” last year as trustees charged each campus $50,000 to help fund “CSU Online.”

It turns out that California professors’ wariness of online education is shared by faculty across the country, according to a survey released Thursday by Inside Higher Ed, an online publication widely read by academics.

The San Francisco Chronicle

One comment on “UC Professors Skeptical Of On Line Education”

  1. In-class courses and online courses are certainly different. The advantage of online courses is that many more students can enroll. If an online course is well organized and the professor (or the course stuff) is willing to answer questions asked in the course chat forums, then there may be no much difference between online and in-class courses. A student willing to learn will learn whether it is an online course or an in-class course. And I have an example of a well organized online course, the Algorithms course offered by Stanford University.


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