Online Learning Update

March 6, 2012

Treating Higher Ed’s ‘Cost Disease’ With Supersize Online Learning Courses

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Oh my God, she’s trying to replace me with a computer. That’s what some professors think when they hear Candace Thille pitch the online education experiment she directs, the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. They’re wrong. But what her project does replace is the traditional system of building and delivering introductory college courses. Professors should move away from designing foundational courses in statistics, biology, or other core subjects on the basis of “intuition,” she argues. Instead, she wants faculty to work with her team to put out the education equivalent of Super Bowl ads: expensively built online course materials, cheaply available to the masses.

http://chronicle.com/article/Treating-Higher-Eds-Cost/130934/

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