KQED Forum, May 20, 2010 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201005200900
Edley: It’s an idea, it’s a vision, it’s something that I think we should definitely move toward but carefully because we obviously don’t want to sacrifice quality in any way. My principal motivation is access; it’s the social justice component of it…. And I think we really need to explore online technology as a way to do it not just for UC eligible students within California, whom we might not otherwise be able to serve, but ultimately for similarly qualified, similarly prepared students in Kentucky, in Kuala Lumpur.
Kutz: I’m sure Chris Edley would agree with this. It’s not simply about certifying competence. It’s about leading somebody into the kind of education process that really takes place in two dimensions: one is the dimension between the student and the instructor, and involves quite a lot of back and forth between student and instructor; and the second, and I think equally important, is the interaction among the students…. The online courses … do miss that component to a certain degree.