Online Learning Update

March 22, 2013

Online-course bill is sharply criticized by top UC faculty leaders

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times

In a crossing of swords between academics and politicians, the University of California’s top two faculty leaders on Friday strongly criticized legislation that would allow students bumped from overcrowded core courses at state schools to instead take online courses from other colleges or private companies. The bill, authored by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), “raises grave concerns,” Robert L. Powell and Bill Jacob, the chairman and vice chairman of the UC system’s faculty Senate, wrote in a letter to colleagues. Among other things, “the clear self-interest of for-profit corporations in promoting the privatization of public higher education through this legislation is dismaying,” they said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-online-classes-20130316,0,6168458.story

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