Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, July 16, 2001

http://www.contracostatimes.com/partners/ns/shortage_20010715.htm

CSU offers new online credential program - Goal of the first entirely Web-based degree program offered by the system is to end the teacher shortage
BY CARRIE STURROCK

To combat the teacher shortage, California State University has made it more convenient to become an elementary school teacher with a new online program. It's the first completely Internet-based degree program at CSU for people working toward a California teaching credential. Students could live anywhere from Humboldt to San Diego and take classes whenever their hectic schedules demand -- 3 p.m. or 3 a.m. -- at Chico State. Liberal Studies Online targets people who haven't completed their bachelor's degrees, but it could also aid those already holding degrees that aren't geared toward a teaching career....

 



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