The Kept-Up Academic Librarian: Incentives Failed To Lure U Of California Faculty To Go Online

June 26, 2012

Incentives Failed To Lure U Of California Faculty To Go Online

When the University of California dangled a $30,000 incentive to thousands of professors in 2010 inviting them to create UC-worthy online courses, just 70 responded, and only a few classes materialized. It turns out that California professors' wariness of online education is shared by faculty across the country, according to a survey released Thursday by Inside Higher Ed, an online publication widely read by academics. Read more at:
http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Online-education-has-teachers-conflicted-3654171.php

Jun 26, 2012 1:36:00 AM | Distance Learning, Faculty

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