-San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 2010 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/11/MN581EAQR0.DTL
“We want to do a highly selective, fully online, credit-bearing program on a large scale—and that has not been done,” said UC Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley, who is leading the effort.
-The Bay Citizen, July 14, 2010 by Gerry Shih
http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/dean-pushes-virtual-uc-berkeley/
There is breadth, Edley said: The nine undergraduate campuses offer 1,250 different courses. But there is also depth—if the cyber program’s administrators wanted to find “the most fabulous instructor for an introductory Chinese history course,” he said as an example, they would have nine campuses to choose from. “We will have the world’s largest intellectual smorgasbord from which to feast,” Edley declared.
-Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2010 by Larry Gordon
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-enroll-20100715,0,2160250.story
UC Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley, a leading advocate of online education at UC, said the proposal would help the university cut costs, gain revenue and expand access to students whose family or job responsibilities keep them from attending traditional classes. Edley promised that faculty would have control over the proposal but emphasized the importance of moving quickly. He called it “a question of how well we perform as an engine of opportunity in California and for the country.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2010 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/14/BAC61EEDI4.DTL
“It’s not where you stick a couple of camcorders in the lecture hall,” Edley said. “We’re talking about high production values. Discussions in desktop video conferencing. Chat rooms and discussion boards. We’d use social-networking software that I’d say our students are already addicted to.”