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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Why I Teach Online Courses - George P. Schell, eLearning Magazine
Why should college faculty teach online courses when there's substantial evidence that it's probably detrimental to their promotion and tenure? That said, I have to admit that I teach online courses. By the time you've finished reading this column I hope that you will become an advocate for online courses. In order to explain why I teach online courses, I first need to tell you a little about myself. I'm a professor who teaches information systems in a business school. After eight years in industry I resigned when I was offered an IBM Fellowship to attend the doctoral program at Purdue University. My boss thought I was crazy because my position and salary would never be met in the world of academics. I keep remembering the line Debra Winger expressed in the movie Terms of Endearment when her husband achieved tenure: "Great, now we'll be poor forever."
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