By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley | July 24, 2012

By the Executive Committee for Online Education

Elements of higher education are moving online very quickly. More than 30% of all enrolled college students, some six million people, participated in online learning at accredited U.S. colleges and universities in 2011. At the same time, online higher education is still at an early stage of development, with enormous opportunities for experimentation and learning. Every student, faculty and staff member, administrator, and alumnus has an interest in how we approach this opportunity. This document proposes principles to guide Berkeleys strategy for online education that should assist units in designing online education offerings, clarify campus-level priorities, and accelerate Berkeleys growing reputation for leadership in this area.

Our approach to online education reflects five principles:

Our approach to enacting online programs will adhere to an approach that has served Berkeley well in all of our other initiatives. This is characterized by:

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