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Vim and Vigor on UC Online Higher Ed

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From the Sacramento Bee Capitol Alert blog: Jerry Brown says UC, CSU leaders pledged to pursue online ed ‘vigorously’ Gov. Jerry Brown said today that he vetoed his own budget proposal to earmark $20 million for online education at the University of California and California State University systems only after leaders of those institutions assured him they would pursue online course offerings on their own.“I had an agreement from both the segments that they would carry out online vigorously,” Brown told reporters at an event in Sacramento. “As the leader of both governing boards, I’m actively engaged with both the…

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Listen to the Meeting of the Regents Jan. 16, 2013 – morning (online education)

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Our previous post noted that we are going back through 2013 to post and archive audio of Regents’ meetings.  See the previous post for why it is necessary to do this (and why it shouldn’t be). The morning session of January 16, 2013 was devoted largely to online higher education, essentially at the “request” of Governor Brown. Agenda: Wednesday, January 16 8:30 am Committee of the Whole (open session – includes public comment session)9:30 am Committee on Educational Policy (open session)12:00: Lunch You can hear the session at the link below:

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No Mandate for Online Ed at UC: Let’s Pretend!

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Our post last night that the governor line-item vetoed his own $10 million mandate in the new state budget for online courses at UC is correct in a literal sense. But what appears to have happened is that UC – which doesn’t like overt mandates which challenge its constitutional autonomy – agreed that it would spend $10 million on online ed anyway if the governor would just remove the mandate language. From Inside Higher Ed today: …“We’ve made a commitment to provide the $10 million, so it’s not going to affect our plans,” said Steve Montiel, a spokesman for the UC…

Getting More Moody(‘s)

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Yesterday, we noted how a lawsuit by a former UCLA basketball player had led Moody’s to lower the credit outlook for the NCAA.  More generally, Moody’s seems to be all over higher ed and now getting into the MOOC business.  According to Moody’s, big-name universities should be happy with MOOCs and lesser ones should be sad.  From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The spread of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is “credit positive” for universities that offer them but “credit negative” for a majority of lesser-known institutions that lack a prominent brand name, according to a report published on…

On Second Thought

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According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, major universities are have second thoughts about having commercial MOOC providers handle their online courses. Colleges looking to expand their online course offerings have often enlisted help from education-technology companies. A college might buy a learning-management system from Blackboard, e-tutoring software from Pearson, and so on. Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in massive open online courses, recently became the latest technology firm to offer services aimed at credit-bearing online programs at large universities. Now the provosts in a consortium of major research universities are considering whether their group should build its…

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It might not be yours

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Both the Chronicle of Higher Ed and Inside Higher Ed are running stories about an AAUP warning that faculty who give MOOC-type courses may not end up owning the content.  According to the Chronicle, the AAUP will be starting a campaign to clarify ownership of faculty intellectual property. The Chronicle story is at http://chronicle.com/article/AAUP-Sees-MOOCs-as-Spawning/139743 The Inside Higher Ed version is at http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/13/aaup-session-centers-intellectual-property-and-academic-freedom-online-education-age You may think it’s yours but…

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The Mystery of Online Ed Courtesy of the LAO

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Notice from the Legislative Analyst’s Office:——–Expanding the Delivery of Courses Through Technology June 5, 2013:   This handout was not presented at the Budget Conference Committee and has been removed from the website.———Source: http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/PubDetails.aspx?id=2789Everyone loves a mystery![youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyTjnnHBPkw?feature=player_detailpage]

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Cheap, Cheap

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Poll results from today’s LA Times: …Among the registered voters who participated in the survey, 59% said they agreed with the idea that increasing the number of online classes at California’s public universities will make education more affordable and accessible. However, 34% expressed fears that expanding online classes will reduce access to professors, diminish the value of college degrees and not save money… The poll found substantial opposition to another possible campus change: increasing the share of students from other states and nations. Even though non-Californians pay much higher tuition, 57% of the poll respondents said that adding out-of-state students…

Surprise!

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s story about the announcement of deals with MOOC suppliers by various state university systems across the nation, Inside Higher Ed reports today that for many faculty, at those systems it was a surprise: Some faculty leaders were surprised this week when state systems and flagship universities in nine states announced a series of new business partnerships with Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based ed tech company. The universities plan to work with Coursera  a provider of massive open online courses, to try out a variety of new teaching methods and business models, including MOOCs and things that…

It’s getting hard to turn your back on the MOOc stampede

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No one wants to be BEHIND the times. The latest entries in the stampede to MOOCs: From the San Jose Mercury-News: Coursera strikes huge online-education deal with state university systems  The movement of “massive online open courses,” which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education. On Thursday, 10 large public university systems — including the giant state systems of New York, Tennessee, Colorado and the University of Houston — will announce plans to incorporate MOOCs and platforms offered through for-profit Coursera of Mountain View into…