Faculty Backlash Grows against Online Partnerships

Autor/in	Kolowich, Steve
Titel	Faculty Backlash Grows against Online Partnerships
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, (2013) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Distance Education; Online Courses; College Faculty; Teacher Collaboration; Cooperation; Educational Technology; Web Based Instruction; Teacher Attitudes; Computer Uses in Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Online course; Online-Kurs; Fakultät; Lehrerkooperation; Co-operation; Kooperation; Unterrichtsmedien; Web Based Training; Lehrerverhalten; Computernutzung
Abstract	Many professors recognize that online education is changing the landscape of academe. But faculty members at several colleges are making it clear that they will not be steamrolled. Philosophy professors at San Jose State University last week wrote an open letter saying they refused to use material from an edX course, taught by a famous Harvard University professor, for fear that California State University administrators were angling for a way to eventually gut their department. At Duke University a week earlier, an undergraduate-faculty council voted down a push by the provost's office to offer small online courses for credit through 2U, a company that sells an online platform and support services to colleges. In each case, the professors were careful to make clear that they oppose not online technology, but rather the notion of collaborating with an outside vendor that might pose a threat, in the long term, to their principles. The philosophy professors at San Jose State, in particular, sensed a latent, existential threat in their university's collaboration with edX, a nonprofit massive open online course (MOOC) provider formed last year by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10