All the PowerPoint slides and chat rooms in the world can’t replicate the power of an in-person learning experience, and it’s hard to see how a cyber UC degree would have the same status as a regular one. UC faculty members are skeptical now, but in the future, employers and graduate schools will be. Complaints about how a cyber college would dilute the university’s status and dumb down learning helped bring down a similar project at the University of Illinois after two years. Apart from concerns about status – which are real, even if they’re not pretty – there’s an increasing amount of research that shows online learning is qualitatively different from regular learning – and not for the better.

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by The Editors, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: July 18th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.