Mohammad H. Qayoumi, president of San Jose State University, has spent much of the year turning his campus into a testing ground for new online-teaching tools. But apparently he’s also been testing the patience of faculty members, who say the idea of shared governance has been all but forgotten as he has sought technology that might eventually help the university teach more students for less money… Last spring, professors at the university redesigned several mathematics courses for Udacity’s platform and offered them for credit to a number of students, some of whom were enrolled at the university. Some professors involved in the experiment praised the Udacity platform, but the results of the spring trial were not promising; students in the “Udacified” versions of the courses performed significantly worse over all than did their classroom counterparts.

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by Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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