Category Online Education

* SCFA Response to Notice for Fall 2020 Online Course Proposals

June 10, 2020 Jennifer Schiffner Director, Employee & Labor Relations University of California, Santa Cruz Dear Jen, Thanks for your letter of June 9.  The clarifications you sent, particularly the sunset clause, represent progress in the protection of faculty rights.…

* On-line Course Proposals Spring 2020

This spring the university put out a call for online course proposals, to be developed over the summer with a summer stipend. A condition of the university’s call was that awardees “be willing to share these materials with their colleagues…

* Update on Online Education

We concluded our bargaining with the university over revenues for online course offerings in December 2016.   Under the current agreement, 40% of any revenues above course development costs will go to the faculty developer, a figure double the university’s original…

* Final Coursera Agreements – End of Negotiations, for now

We are pleased to announce that, following two years of negotiations with the UCSC administration, we have reached an agreement regarding on-line course contracts, resulting in an Online Course Hosting and Services Agreement between Coursera and the University, and a…