The author of this column argues against professors resisting online learning by saying, as the title suggests, let the experiment be made. After all, he argues, "The slippery-slope scenario says less about online education than it does about the lack of trust that exists between faculty members and administrators." Fair enough. But the experiment? "That means a commitment to maintain small classes online... limits on the percentage of a student's overall education that can be completed entirely online... online courses should be taught by the regular, full-time, tenured faculty members... online education should not be used a means of unbundling the teaching functions... the content of online courses should remain under the faculty control; it should not be allowed to become a slick, corporate product." Do it like this, it seems to me, and you're just setting yourself up for failure.
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