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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Outsourcing Public Higher Ed: California Proposal to Encourage Accepting MOOCs for Credit - Paul Fain and Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Ed
A powerful California lawmaker wants public college students who are shut out of popular courses to attend low-cost online alternatives – including those offered by for-profit companies – and he plans to encourage the state’s public institutions to grant credit for those classes. The proposal expected today from Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat and president pro tem of the state Senate, aims to create a “statewide system of faculty-approved, online college courses,” according to a written statement from Steinberg’s office. (A spokesman for Steinberg declined to discuss the bill.) Faculty would decide which courses should make the cut for a pool of online offerings. Likely participants include Udacity and Coursera, two major massive open online course providers, sources said. Another option might be StraighterLine, a low-cost, self-paced online course company.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/13/california-bill-encourage-mooc-credit-public-colleges