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So called professional educators are afraid that if students get an education, without propaganda or promoting anti-social, anti-American curriculum, they will lose control.
Students want an education to better themselves and to be prepared to be responsible citizens, not "community organizers".
"Now the University of California wants to jump into online education for undergraduates, hoping to become the nation's first top-tier research institution to offer a bachelor's degree over the Internet comparable in quality to its prestigious campus program.
"We want to do a highly selective, fully online, credit-bearing program on a large scale - and that has not been done," said UC Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley, who is leading the effort.
But a number of skeptical faculty members and graduate student instructors fear that a cyber UC would deflate the university's five-star education into a fast-food equivalent, cheapening the brand. Similar complaints at the University of Illinois helped bring down that school's ambitious Global Campus program last fall after just two years."
Is the purpose of government education to politicalize students or educate them? Currently, the brick and mortars brigade is about propaganda. The students and taxpayers deserve better.
Imagine the money saved if half the students received their education online, instead of traveling to a facility, making the air dirty, and then have to go to a classroom, built by unions, for the unions.
This is better for our environment, our students and our taxes.
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Students want an education to better themselves and to be prepared to be responsible citizens, not "community organizers".
"Now the University of California wants to jump into online education for undergraduates, hoping to become the nation's first top-tier research institution to offer a bachelor's degree over the Internet comparable in quality to its prestigious campus program.
"We want to do a highly selective, fully online, credit-bearing program on a large scale - and that has not been done," said UC Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley, who is leading the effort.
But a number of skeptical faculty members and graduate student instructors fear that a cyber UC would deflate the university's five-star education into a fast-food equivalent, cheapening the brand. Similar complaints at the University of Illinois helped bring down that school's ambitious Global Campus program last fall after just two years."
Is the purpose of government education to politicalize students or educate them? Currently, the brick and mortars brigade is about propaganda. The students and taxpayers deserve better.
Imagine the money saved if half the students received their education online, instead of traveling to a facility, making the air dirty, and then have to go to a classroom, built by unions, for the unions.
This is better for our environment, our students and our taxes.
More...