Online Learning Update

April 1, 2013

Editorial: Academics and lawmakers collide over online learning classes

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

By Daily Democrat

University of California faculty leaders reacted with outrage when a legislator suggested a paradigm shift in public higher education. It almost doesn’t matter what the suggestion was. It was ever thus when academics at the august university feel they are being pushed around by the Sacramento electeds. They are the doctors of philosophy, and they’re not going to let some baby-kisser tell them how to impart the wisdom of the ages. The fights have been going on for as long as there has been public higher education in the state of California. That means the power struggle has been going on for 145 years. This time, though, the fight goes to both the high-tech future of pedagogy and the down-and-dirty ways education is paid for. Darrell Steinberg, the president pro tem of the state Senate, was touting his bill that would allow UC and California State University students who can’t get the classes they need because of budget cuts to take them instead from other colleges. Schools old and new, famous or not, with old-fashioned classrooms or in the newfangled manner of classes streaming through a computer. And here’s the kick in the head: They could include online courses from the dreaded for-profit schools trimming the trees of traditional groves of academe.

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/editorial/ci_22860460/editorial-academics-and-lawmakers-collide-over-online-classes

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