THE CHANGING ROLE OF FACULTY AND ONLINE EDUCATION

Murray Turoff

doi:10.24059/olj.v10i4.1749

Authors

Murray Turoff

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v10i4.1749

Keywords:

Academic Quality, Faculty Roles, Consumers, Accreditors, Environment, Change

Abstract

Environmental forces influencing the future of higher education in the U.S. threaten to undermine the desirable role of faculty as arbiters of academic quality. For online learning to live up to its potential, institutional policies can return academic authority to faculty over degree programs in all modes and support the importance of education in promotion and tenure processes. Accreditation agencies traditionally have been a service to the institutions and the administration at higher education institutions; they will also have to become an equal service to the consumer of higher education. Consumerism will force all those concerned with the quality and utility of a higher education to focus on the quality and effectiveness of the instructors.

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