Uc-Aft World Comment For Regents Coming Together (1/16/13)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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1. We appreciate the increased funding from the state, only this does non brand upwards for years of reductions; moreover, nosotros are concerned close the force for online education.
2. While many of our faculty members already role digital technologies inwards unlike ways, nosotros accept non establish that the role of high-quality online courses reduces costs; inwards fact, due to the need for staffing, novel equipment, together with software, they may drive upwards costs.
3. Already the UC Online Pilot Program has failed to run across most of its projections. Millions accept been spent on marketing together with course of instruction development, only alone a few non-UC students accept enrolled.
4. In fact, nosotros accept already driven downwardly the costs of undergraduate instruction inwards the UC arrangement through the role of large classes together with non-tenured faculty; moving these classes online volition non salvage money. The stress on online pedagogy is a distraction from the existent toll drivers: administration, professional person education, medical centers, athletics, sponsored research, together with amenities.
5. If a professor teaches iv courses together with makes $100,000 a year, the per pupil straight instructional toll for a bird of 250 students is $100; inwards the representative of a non-tenured faculty member, the toll on average is $40; online pedagogy volition non lower these costs. Even if you lot eliminate all of the teachers, you lot nevertheless need to pay individual to blueprint the courses, interact alongside the students, administer the program, together with bird the papers. Online pedagogy is a recipe for administrative bloat.
6. Students accept a difficult fourth dimension graduating on fourth dimension because they are sometimes unprepared for university-level work, they are weeded out of high-demand majors, they need to function at jobs to pay for the full toll of education, they are alienated inwards large lecture classes, together with courses are graded on a distributed bend (some students accept to neglect inwards this system): online pedagogy volition non help solve these issues.
7. We need a transparent accounting of the existent toll drivers inwards the UC system.
2. While many of our faculty members already role digital technologies inwards unlike ways, nosotros accept non establish that the role of high-quality online courses reduces costs; inwards fact, due to the need for staffing, novel equipment, together with software, they may drive upwards costs.
3. Already the UC Online Pilot Program has failed to run across most of its projections. Millions accept been spent on marketing together with course of instruction development, only alone a few non-UC students accept enrolled.
4. In fact, nosotros accept already driven downwardly the costs of undergraduate instruction inwards the UC arrangement through the role of large classes together with non-tenured faculty; moving these classes online volition non salvage money. The stress on online pedagogy is a distraction from the existent toll drivers: administration, professional person education, medical centers, athletics, sponsored research, together with amenities.
5. If a professor teaches iv courses together with makes $100,000 a year, the per pupil straight instructional toll for a bird of 250 students is $100; inwards the representative of a non-tenured faculty member, the toll on average is $40; online pedagogy volition non lower these costs. Even if you lot eliminate all of the teachers, you lot nevertheless need to pay individual to blueprint the courses, interact alongside the students, administer the program, together with bird the papers. Online pedagogy is a recipe for administrative bloat.
6. Students accept a difficult fourth dimension graduating on fourth dimension because they are sometimes unprepared for university-level work, they are weeded out of high-demand majors, they need to function at jobs to pay for the full toll of education, they are alienated inwards large lecture classes, together with courses are graded on a distributed bend (some students accept to neglect inwards this system): online pedagogy volition non help solve these issues.
7. We need a transparent accounting of the existent toll drivers inwards the UC system.