“It Takes Time”
“The University of California
System, after five years and millions of dollars spent, is asking for more time
and money to get its systemwide online education initiative off the ground.”
“The 10-campus university system
began to seriously consider a centralized approach to online education in 2009,
as California faced a multibillion-dollar deficit that led to budget cuts,
layoffs and tuition hikes across the state. Online for-credit courses, administrators
believed -- and to some extent still believe -- could alleviate some the
system’s access issues and create a new source of tuition revenue.”
“But five years later,
California’s economy has rebounded, and the exigency to go online and do so
quickly has diminished. As a result, UC has changed its course, choosing to
focus on high-demand online and hybrid courses developed at one or more
campuses to benefit students across the system.”
“The shift was perhaps best
summarized by Janet Napolitano, the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
who became president of the university system last September. During a talk
organized by the Public Policy Institute of California this March, Napolitano played down the
importance of online learning.”
Read the rest here: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/13/changing-economy-changes-online-education-priorities-u-california
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Dr Flavius A B Akerele III
The ETeam
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