by Orange County Reporter
Cal State University needs to improve students’ access to online courses and how it reports data, according to a state watchdog report released Wednesday. The California Legislative Analyst’s Office detailed a number of issues in evaluating CSU’s cross-campus online education program, which allows students to register for classes at CSU campuses other than theirs. Finding online courses using the Cal State database is difficult, the chancellor’s office provided “insufficient” information needed to evaluate the university’s registration process, and few students registered for online classes at other campuses, the six-page report says. In 2015, some 80,000 undergraduate students, or 19 percent of those in the CSU system, and 6,600 graduate students, or 12 percent, took at least one course in which all of the work was done online. The university system, the largest in the country, offers about 1,500 online courses that do not require in-class attendance.
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