May 15, 2007

Faculty are wary of online courses prepared by others, and worry that out-of-the-box content will reduce them to facilitators rather than teachers. For them, courses created by others are in conflict with their motivation to teach. Of course, this puts them squarely in opposition to discussions in distance education on the standardization of curriculum and the desire to ensure that all students have the same outcomes.

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