UC online degree proposal rattles academics —and me!
[This is from last July, sorry, but I'm transferring from another blog.]
"Within
30 minutes of a class being taught at Stanford, we're able to offer it
around the world," said Andy DiPaolo, senior associate dean at the
School of Engineering. "We think in many ways it's comparable (in
quality). It's not live instruction. We've tried not to lock students
into a specific time." Students in Stanford's online manufacturing
class, for example, live in different time zones yet team up online to
design, say, a car lock, DiPaolo said. "This is not a second-tier
program," he said. "We have identical admissions, identical
requirements" for online and traditional degrees. But some UC faculty
and graduate student instructors believe removing face-to-face
interaction by definition diminishes quality.
Actually the quote points up a major problem...they want to just plunk the original onto the web. Not design it FOR the web. Misses the whole idea of what "online" can really mean. The article's pretty stark in laying out attitudes toward online instruction in that plunked down form, but doesn't address the alternatives at all.
And no, I don't have the full answer, but by gum, I've got part of it! Dialogues are the key for CocoLoco.
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