The Online Instruction Pilot Project will launch roughly 20 to 25 online courses at nine campuses beginning in January. Faculty and researchers will evaluate the courses, and if the data suggest the courses have a positive impact on students’ learning outcomes, UC will push to make online instruction a permanent part of the undergraduate experience. The idea is to create UC-quality courses that can expand access to students while also generating extra revenue during increasingly tough budgetary times… But leaders of the University Council – American Federation of Teachers, which represents the system’s more than 3,000 non-tenured lecturers and librarians, are concerned the university’s push toward online instruction could threaten lecturers’ jobs and degrade the quality of a UC education.

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by Erica Perez, California Watch.

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