By Joe Sullivan, Metro Pulse
One might suppose that more online courses could help reduce UT’s much publicized bottleneck to graduation due to reductions in faculty ranks and course offerings resulting from budget cuts over the past two years. But McMillan insists that such is not the case. “When they’re taught right, [online courses] take more faculty time than courses taught in a classroom setting. We don’t want them to be plug-and-play, so teachers are doing a lot more one-on-one student interactions than when they’re in the classroom.” Whether this is a proactive as opposed to a protective posture, I’m not qualified to say. And the refreshingly candid McMillan is frank to acknowledge that “We haven’t had a clear sense of strategic education” where going online is concerned. In the fall, she says, “We’ll be pulling together a task force to think about where we want to be.”
http://www.metropulse.com/news/2012/jul/11/are-online-courses-part-uts-future/
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