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Friday, August 23, 2002
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2002/08/22_class.html UC Berkeley's first entirely online course could lead way to more classes without a classroom Robert Sanders, Media Relations The University of California, Berkeley, is offering its first course taught solely through the Web... "Gems and Gem Materials," an undergraduate class being taught this fall by Jill Banfield, a professor of earth and planetary sciences.... Philip Stark, professor of statistics and faculty assistant in education technology within UC Berkeley's Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, said the campus supports such classes, if appropriate. "Our view is that online resources can enrich classes, and we favor anything that improves the quality of education at Berkeley. The administration wants to support faculty who desire to add online components to their classes, and we want to provide whatever infrastructure and consulting help we can to make it possible," he said. Choosing appropriate technological enhancements for courses, or whether to use technology at all, is up to the Academic Senate and individual faculty members and instructors, he noted. "Neither the administration nor the faculty think that a UC Berkeley undergraduate education should consist of sitting in front of a computer in lieu of face-to-face contact with an instructor," said Stark. However, many of us advocate a 'hybrid' approach that uses technology in appropriate and demonstrably effective ways to supplement lectures and other direct interaction between students and instructors. As I see it, Berkeley is a research university, and this course is an experiment - it's research into teaching - to see how well the approach works."...
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