Online Learning Update

June 16, 2011

Training Teachers Online? MAT@USC Program Gives It A Shot

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

By Robyn Gee, Huffington Post

University of Southern California (USC) is set to become, “the country’s largest not-for-profit teacher prep program by 2013,” according to The Atlantic. All due to their online Masters of Arts in Teaching program – MAT@USC. USC now graduates 1500 teachers, many of whom attend classes via video chat. According to Margo Pensavalle, Professor of Clinical Education at the Rossier School of Education at USC, and a member of the faculty for the MAT@USC program, insists that the program is really top notch. “We didn’t want to be like DeVry – this is USC and we wanted to do a really good job… The syllabi for the courses are identical and the faculty are identical [to the on-campus courses],” she said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/youth-radio-youth-media-international/training-teachers-online_b_871206.html

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