As Michael mentioned, the two of us will be participating in a panel discussion next week – Rebooting CA Higher Education, sponsored by the 20 Million Minds Foundation, on January 8th. The event will be live streamed.
I’ve been asked to give a short talk based on my recent EDUCAUSE Review article that described various online educational models, and I will also moderate several panels. Given my role, I’d like to collect links to several of the key posts and articles that frame the issues to be discussed next week. After the event I’ll share my thoughts on the discussions.
Statements Prior to Formation of Online Symposium
The panel discussion is based on governor Jerry Brown’s call for the three public higher education systems in California (University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges) to evaluate online education as one method to control or reduce student costs. In particular, much of the discussion started during Governor Brown’s meeting with the UC Regents on Nov 14, 2012.
- San Francisco Chronicle 11/13: Governor gets CSU, UC increases halted – ‘Taxpayers got out of their comfort zone’ in voting for Prop. 30, Brown told the trustees. ‘We have to follow suit’ and find ways to improve higher education without raising costs.”
- UCLA Faculty Association blog 11/14: Listen to Morning Session of UC Regents: 11-14-12 – This blog captured unofficial meeting notes from the UC regents meeting in question. “Regents chair Lansing pushed for more progress on online education. Others, including Lt. Gov. Newsom, were also impatient about UC progress on online education.”
- YouTube 11/14: Audio of Governor Brown at UC Regents Meeting – From the notes, “Gov. Jerry Brown at University of California Board of Regents on Online Education & Budgets, 11-14-2012. Brown is an ex officio regent. He spoke in favor of online education and moving the university in that direction.”
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