by Jessica Sun, LaVoz Weekly
De Anza President Brian Murphy said, “The skepticism from SJSU and that you would hear from our faculty is whether or not the prepackaged online massive courses replicate the lecture system that partially we tried to get away from by having smaller classes.” Along with the pedagogical qualms about MOOCs, some are concerned they will enable policy makers to defund public education and to divert the conversation away from course reductions. “I think it’s critical that those who are pushing them (MOOCs) to teach us more about what the substantive learning outcomes are, because right now the conversation is almost entirely about cost and how you can lower cost by eliminating courses, and we believe that’s the wrong place to start,” Murphy said. Karen Chow, president of De Anza’s academic senate, said that faculty are not readily embracing this idea because they could not revise contents to more adequately serve the student population of an individual campus.
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