Doing Online Right
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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Several of my recent posts convey dealt amongst the negative aspects of the UC motility to house courses online, simply I desire to clarify that many faculty members are currently using digital technologies inwards an effective manner. For example, many uc teachers are having their students make spider web sites in addition to analyze a broad attain of web-based contents. There is too a growing purpose of digital courseware in addition to degree management systems, in addition to many faculty employ online degree discussions. Moreover, nosotros are witnessing efforts to purpose digital in addition to multimedia textbooks equally nosotros instruct our students how to access in addition to assess digital media. Finally, nosotros already convey thousands of classes that are either totally or partially online.
One argue the Regents may non know virtually the high flat of digital action inwards the UC arrangement is because the Regents are non educators, in addition to they convey piddling cognition of what truly goes on inwards academy classrooms. Unfortunately, the latest Regents coming together revealed that many of the UC administrators too make non know virtually the purpose of digital technologies inwards the UC system: nosotros convey online extension programs, nosotros convey networked classrooms, nosotros convey digital labs, in addition to nosotros convey digital libraries – inwards fact, nosotros may last 1 of the globe leaders inwards high-tech education, simply what nosotros make non convey is a replication of the University of Phoenix.
If y'all nous to the terminate of the give-and-take virtually online learning from the end Regents meeting, y'all volition bespeak heed the exasperated Berkeley Chancellor Birgenou exclaim, “I convey no persuasion what y'all people are talking about.” From my perspective, this was the novel quondam Chancellor’s best moment. Yes, the Regents truly convey no persuasion what is going on inwards the really establishment they are supposed to last directing.