We've been going back and forth here about our online development. Dr. Williams is right now devp for the fall (Intermediate) and I'm going to do Banking in the Spring of '10. A recent decision of the Deans' Council requires that all online courses have online testing and no proctoring of any kind, so we're working around that stuff right now. Some of my colleagues in other areas (not finance) are struggling with that one -- they're concerned that it is impossible to maintain the same standards in online and F2F classes, and it's impossible to verify student identities. I'm not sure how we're going to fix it, but some fix has to be found.
Turns out (4/12) that there was no Deans Council decision, as that would be against state law. The university cannot tell us that we can't proctor exams, no matter what they would have us believe.
Turns out (4/12) that there was no Deans Council decision, as that would be against state law. The university cannot tell us that we can't proctor exams, no matter what they would have us believe.
It's an ongoing struggle to make our classes as complete as we can, and do all this other stuff too. Meanwhile, for those students who think online is going to be somehow easier than face-to-face, look out!
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