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University Seeks Professors for Online Courses
Posted November 19, 2010 04:11 PM
Due to a national teacher shortage, employment of education professionals is expected to increase over the next several years. Much of this growth will be in the online education sector. To prepare more professors to teach online, the University of California (UC) has issued an invitation to faculty members, asking them to participate in a pilot project that is designed to test undergraduate online courses, Canada Views reports.
The project will involve as many as 25 for-credit courses that are offered in a wide array of disciplines. Faculty members will have until December 13 to submit letters of intent that state their interest in developing and teaching an online course as part of UC's Online Instruction Pilot Project.
"One
University Seeks Professors for Online Courses of the reasons we are doing this project now in an organized way at the university is to really get the faculty involved," said Gary Matkin, UC Irvine's dean of Continuing Education, Distance Learning and Summer Sessions.
Officials from the university expect that most of the courses that are selected for the project will be ready for student enrollment by January 2012, and the pilot project will continue until the end of that year.
