By Karen Kucher, UT San Diego
Faculty leaders at California public colleges and universities are expressing concern about maintaining quality control over curriculum under a proposal that would allow private companies to offer basic courses online for credit. Union leaders representing community college instructors said they were “deeply concerned” over the plan, finding fundamental problems with outsourcing gateway courses and mandating that colleges bypass normal curriculum-approval processes. Similar concerns about state Senate Bill 520 were stated by faculty association representatives at the California State University and University of California systems. “The clear, self-interest of for-profit corporations in promoting the privatization of public higher education through this legislation is dismaying,” Robert Powell, chair of the UC Assembly of the Academic Senate, wrote in a letter to senate members.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/16/faculty-raise-concerns-over-online-education-plan/
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