I donât think you can fight the online education bandwagon. It makes too much sense for a lot of different topics. Sure some will be hard to teach online, but I could see a lot of hybrid classes that have a part online and part real world component.
Six courses on a two semester contract would be a very heavy load for a tenured professor at a mainstream college or university.
Interesting⦠Online education does have some benefits though. For one thing it can be expanded to international students. Seems like if they marketed it right, professors might not need to lose jobs because each school might be able to get more students.
Online education is a good thing, a good idea, and worthwhile. Will it take the place of a better but much more expensive thing. No, not any more than increasing popularity of the efficient, useful, and low-cost Honda Civic will affect Ferrari Sales. There will always be Civics and Ferraris, or their equivalents, and we will never be confused as to which is which.
To hell with these useless professors. If they were so good they would be out in the real world getting a job instead of hiding in their ivory tower.
official salary-2.36M USD a year. and no one is complaining dean at gvt university. unfortunately- article is in russian. but the salary is real. http://newsru.com/finance/10jun2013/rurchstgiherschlhd.html here- http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/livanov-promises-pay-raises-for-professors/481435.html
reminds me of the story of the big beam on brezhnev's face when he found out his home was worth more than kissinger's