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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, June 27, 2002

http://www.pressherald.com/news/local/020622usm.shtml

Screening of lectures opposed
TESS NACELEWICZ, Portland Press Herald Writer

Charles Lyons, vice chancellor of the University of Maine System's distance education program, also teaches a graduate course on special-education law. Because his students are teachers who live all over the state, Lyons delivers his lectures via interactive television. The lectures are videotaped, so students can review them later. When asked Friday how he would feel if a university committee previewed his broadcasts and course tapes for "accuracy and integrity" before students could see them, Lyons replied: "I can't imagine, as a faculty member, embracing that . . . Nobody else in the country that I know of is doing such a thing."...

 



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