By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology
While a lot of schools are teaming up with third-party companies to launch online versions of long-standing degree programs, USC’s business school is doing the work in-house. Here’s why. “I had no clue how to envision it differently than the way we had always been doing it, which is getting up in front of the classroom, teaching from a textbook and Internal Revenue code and regulations, going through numbers and calculations and writing things on the board,” she recalled. On top of that, she had always assumed the students needed her presence and her lectures in order to learn the material. The proposed online format made her question the role of the instructor in the classroom. And she was concerned that somehow the USC “brand” might be watered down. Now, Mills unequivocally states that going through the process of converting her course to an online format has made her a better instructor. Here’s how USC Marshall works its magic.
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/02/11/8-best-practices-for-moving-courses-online.aspx
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