What was discussed at the regents meeting was a hodgepodge of goals and ambitions. The university’s online efforts would: expose people across the world with no access to higher education institutions to the wonders of higher learning; enable high school students and community college students to take online classes for credit and thus arrive at the university with credits in their pockets; put 10 percent of every UC student’s education entirely online; put two years of a UC education entirely online; and enable the university to save money or make money in such enormous amounts that it would bridge that gap between what the governor can provide in state appropriations and what the university needs to be fully funded.

The discussion was not grounded in the good work of campus-based efforts.

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by Jonathan Stein, The Daily Californian.

Posted: February 12th, 2013, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.