Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, March 22, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002032201u.htm

Colorado Commission Rules Against State Subsidies for Prepackaged Telecourses
JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Community-college officials in Colorado are upset by new guidelines that prohibit state subsidies for prepackaged televised courses, which thousands of Colorado students have taken in the past year. The guidelines, issued this week by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, do allow continued state subsidies for Internet courses and interactive-television courses. The guidelines -- formally the "Full-Time Equivalent Reporting Guidelines" -- define what courses and programs are eligible for state support.... The guidelines state that, to qualify as "interactive," television courses "must have at least 51 percent interaction with students taking the course." ...

 



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