Chris Edley
Ed. The AVE has run a lot of discussion about Western Governors University. While we suspect WGIU is not a good idea, there are other, far more well thought out ideas about online education, worth your time to read:
from Berkeley Blog: The University of California is launching an online
learning pilot program. If successful, I hope the university will embrace large-scale online instruction — not to replace the on-campus experience, but to enrich it.
More urgently, online learning would enable us to serve the growing number of qualified students for whom there will be no room on campus or for whom a residential full-time program won’t work.
Online education could become central to the University of California. Technological evolution, especially social networking, is making innovations in teaching possible; even in huge courses, instruction doesn’t have to be limited to the sage-on-the-stage.