UC Regents Encourage Online Education Progress

The University of California Board of Regents assured attendants that quality would not be sacrificed for cost savings in regard to online courses during their meeting at UC San Francisco on July 18. Provost and Executive Vice President Aimee Dorr presented her update on the UC’s online education efforts to the Regents. Dorr explained how the Committee on Educational Policy intends to use the $10 million reserved in the budget specifically for online education. Dorr plans to use a portion of the funding to begin the Innovative Learning Technologies Initiative (ILTI). According to her report, this initiative would “provide funds for development and enhancement of online courses and online components for hybrid courses,” as well as “flipped courses” where the lecture content is received online and professors cover homework and problem sets in class.
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