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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
As Pawlenty pushes for more online classes, some colleges lead the way - Sharon Schmickle, MinnPost.com
The Minnesota State College and University System is well into online instruction with more than 8,000 course sections offered online, said Linda Baer, a senior vice chancellor for the system. A cost study in 2007 showed that half of the online sections were more expensive to run than traditional class meetings. Tom Sullivan, vice president and provost at the University of Minnesota, helped explain why. The fact that so much cyber stuff is free for the finding on the Internet doesn't mean it didn't take skill and time to put it there. Building and maintaining an online class takes hours and hours — not only for teachers, but also for designers, coordinators, librarians, graphic artists, videographers and Web developers, Sullivan said.
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