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I am co-organizing with Dr. Ariana Vigil of UNC, Chapel Hill a panel dialogue on the Semester Online Consortium which aims to offer online classes for credit among participating institutions. Working with 2U, an educational start-up, the group plans to offer approximately thirty for credit online courses that will be open to students at all consortium instiutions as well as to students who would have to apply to individual classes. The consortium includes the following schools: Brandeis, Duke, Emory, Northwestern, Notre Dame, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and Washington University in St. Louis. Semester Online represents a radical new stage of online education. It will be the first example of premier universities offering for credit online classes to undergraduate students both enrolled and not enrolled at these schools.
Semester Online has the potential to radically change how we teach as well as how individual universities function. This panel aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from some of the Semester Online schools to discuss what this initiative means. Interested participants must be employed at one of the Semester Online schools and do not need to send an abstract as this will be run as a panel dialogue. Consistent with the theme of the ASA 2013 conference, we are particularly interested in exploring how the business aims of 2U will be aligned with the educational mission of the consortium schools. For further information contact Dr. Stephanie Li at stephanie.li@rochester.edu
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