Online Learning Update

May 21, 2013

Can San José show US academy the way?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:08 am

by JON MARCUS, Times Higher Education (THE)

A merged model: San José State has been experimenting with combining classroom and online education, and it cites impressive improvements in the proportion of students who advance to the next level. It is also at the centre of one of the biggest debates in US higher education, thanks to an experiment that is combining conventional and online learning. As administrators and politicians push to provide online courses that they say will take the pressure off underfunded and oversubscribed conventional ones, some academics – including philosophy scholars at San José State – are pushing back. In some disciplines, the professors say in an open letter, online courses are turning faculty members into glorified teaching assistants. In the California State Senate, a bill has been introduced that would open the door for students who cannot get into entry-level courses to sit the same subjects provided by online players (including for-profit companies) approved by a committee of academics.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/can-san-jos-show-us-academy-the-way/2003779.article

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