online education

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More on the Edley Online Plan for UC

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Insider Higher Ed has a lengthy story today on Dean Edley’s proposal for an online UC degree program at: http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2010/08/03/california Excerpt: California DreamerAugust 3, 2010 Much of the news surrounding the University of California system has involved whether the network of universities will be able to survive its current budgetary crisis without shrinking in size or quality. In that context, it is no surprise that Christopher Edley Jr.’s plan to use online education to expand the university’s footprint “from Kentucky to Kuala Lumpur” has turned some heads — and churned some stomachs. Edley, dean of the law school at the…

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U of Texas Has a UCOF-Like Committee: Endorses Online Ed

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Report: Shift colleges’ focus Committee suggests better use of online classes and ‘no-frills’ education By MELISSA LUDWIGSAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS An advisory committee tasked with making Texas higher education more efficient recommended Thursday that the state make better use of online courses and “no-frills” education and tie state funds to course completion rather than enrollment. Other suggestions included pushing students to finish college in four years and requiring them to complete 10 percent of their degrees outside the classroom. Mandated last year by Gov. Rick Perry, the 20-member committee of business and education leaders presented a draft report to the Texas…

Two Editorials Skeptical About UC Online Degree Proposal

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Online degrees in a real world 7/24/2010 San Gabriel Valley Tribune TWO words best describe the downside of a recent decision by the University of California Board of Regents to develop an Internet-based undergraduate degree program: slippery slope.No matter how you feel about the undoubtedly rapidly expanding role of technology in higher education, the regents’ eventual decision after some fairly in-depth discussion was an odd one at best. That’s because everyone backing the exploration of what would be a tremendous increase in the scale of online learning at the nation’s greatest public university acknowledges how fraught with educational dangers such…

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UC Davis Chancellor cautious regarding online degrees

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July 19, 2010UC Davis Chancellor cautious regarding online degrees From The Swarm blog, Sacramento Bee The editorial board met with University of California, Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi this afternoon in a wide-ranging recap of her first year on campus. Last year, she spoke to the board about the challenges of fulfilling the public mission of the university in an era of reduced state funding. “That mission,” she said, “has been compromised by the inability to fund it. … The struggle is to keep quality in place and to keep it affordable.” That challenge remains. On Monday, she handed out a…

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UC to develop online undergraduate degree program

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Published Thursday, Jul. 15, 2010, Sacramento Bee http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/15/2892158/uc-developing-online-undergraduate.html SAN FRANCISCO — University of California regents have agreed to develop an Internet-based undergraduate degree program that will save money and expand access to tuition-paying students. Regent Sherry Lansing told regents at Wednesday’s meeting in San Francisco that the leading-edge online program gives the university system an opportunity to show everyone else how to do it. Regents Chairman Russell Gould says it’s one of the ways UC might thrive in an era of shrinking financial support from the state. An estimated $6 million in private donations is planned so faculty can begin…

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Dean Edley Presentation on Online Courses to Regents

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Dean Christopher Edley of the UC-Berkeley law school made a presentation to the Regents on online courses. Slides available at: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/documents/online_pilot_presentation_regents_0710.pdf The UC press release related to this presentation of 7-13-10 is reproduced below: UC online instruction project proposed The University of California is exploring the use of online undergraduate instruction through a proposed pilot project. Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and special adviser to the UC president, will introduce the project to UC Regents for discussion at their meeting tomorrow (July 14) at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. Read Edley’s presentation. The pilot project will…

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UC must put emphasis on education, not brand

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UC must put emphasis on education, not brand Timothy Hampton, Garrison Sposito Tuesday, July 13, 2010, San Francisco Chronicle The UC Board of Regents will discuss this week a proposal by the University of California president’s office for an ambitious plan to market UC online. The proposal entertains the vision of an eventual online bachelor’s degree that could tap new students throughout the world, from “Sheboygan to Shanghai.” In fact, the track record for online higher education is very uneven. It requires enormous up-front investments and continual investments for upgrades. Given these high stakes and the financial pressures on UC…

Controversy at UC-Berkeley over expansion of online course offerings

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From www.twitter.com/CalPolicy: Reported controversy at UC-Berkeley over expansion of online course offerings http://bit.ly/c4FNdB And if you think the idea of some version of distance learning is new:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Q-Mw6qH9k These “Sunrise Semester” programs offered courses for credit in New York City beginning in the 1950s.