The prospects of free courses are causing a stir in the education world.
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Obama Course-Giveaway Backlash?
By Marc Parry
Madison, Wis. – OK, maybe backlash is too strong a word.
But some distance-learning leaders are starting to raise questions and concerns about President Obama’s new online-education proposal, a great-course giveaway that would pump $500-million into freely available Web-based courses.
Are new courses needed? Would students get help working through them? Would their privacy be protected as they use the material? All of those issues came up here during last week’s Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning.
Janet Poley, president of the American Distance Education Consortium, argued that course development wasn’t a “terribly high need.” Many online courses have already been created, she pointed out. Why not start from existing material?
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