MU works to streamline online learning - Janese Silvey, Columbia Daily Tribune

The University of Missouri is a step closer to having a new structure for online learning opportunities that would better align the courses and programs now offered to students. A task force created late last year is finalizing a proposal that shows a reorganized system that would put MU High School, online classes and supporting departments under the helm of one e-learning administrator. It’s part of a realignment effort that began in November when administrators pulled MU Direct and the Center for Distance and Independent Study out from MU Extension and put them under direct campus control. Jim Spain, vice provost of undergraduate studies, is doubling as vice provost of e-learning on an interim basis. The goal now, Spain said, is to find the best way to integrate distance and online learning into the main campus.