Playing Catch-Up - Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed

Even as online education has become widely accepted, and many students take for granted their ability to mix in-person and online classes, some liberal arts colleges have a ban on awarding credit for anything online. But as more students learn online, even those colleges are reconsidering their policies. Bowdoin, a private liberal arts institution in Brunswick, Maine, does not allow students to transfer in any academic credit awarded from completing an online course, but the ban could be softened this week. Earlier this month, the college’s Curriculum and Educational Policy Committee proposed to give departments the power to decide whether or not to accept credits from such courses. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/03/bowdoin-and-other-colleges-online-course-credit-gets-second-look