By RACHEL GROSS, New York Times blog The Choice
The University of California will debut just 20 to 30 courses this semester, most of them large lecture classes like Biology I. For the U.C., financial necessity may truly be the mother of innovation. But it’s also “the obvious next step” in making higher education more globally accessible and affordable, said Daniel Greenstein, the system’s vice provost for academic planning, programs and coordination. While other online programs exist at other large research universities, he said no one has successfully created a program at the scale and quality that the university has as its goal. “The University of Illinois (at) Springfield is not Berkeley,” Mr. Greenstein said in an e-mail, before adding, “I am not an elitist snob.”
http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/college-online-virtually-the-same/
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