By KYLE STOKES & ZHE HUANG, Indiana Public Media
Indiana University is investing $8 million over the next three years to increase the number of online courses on all campuses and bring them under one umbrella. The goals of the new initiative are to expand IU’s current online offerings, create new degree programs, and convert current programs to an online format. IU Instructional Systems Technology Professor Barbara Bichelmeyer, who will direct the new office of online education, says new technology allows students and professors to communicate more freely. “Web 2.0 technologies, social networking, opportunities for interaction are allowing students and instructors to be able to connect with each other, even through the Internet and online technologies in ways they haven’t been able to do so in the past,” she says. IU offers online courses in more than 80 academic disciplines.
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