"If you're in courses that have nothing but exams, that can get pretty onerous right before midterms," Mr. Thompson says.
The American Association of University Professors has drafted model contracts that give faculty members a financial interest in courses that are adapted to online presentations.
Poorer students remain clustered in the least prestigious universities, often with the highest dropout rates, in courses that won't guarantee a job.
WORKING OUT THE KINKS Assignments that can't be scored by an automated grader are pushing MOOC providers to get creative, especially in courses that involve writing and analysis.
At Auburn, for example, athletes were found in 2004 to be receiving high grades in courses that required no attendance and little work.
They hold one-on-one tutoring sessions with students in courses that typically have a large enrollment of engineers.
Non-law students may not enroll in courses that are part of the required first-year JD curriculum.
Students may not sign up for tutoring in courses that were not requested and approved by the CSA tutoring service.
Enrollment in courses that do not advance training in Biological Sciences or the area of thesis research is discouraged.
Dramatic curricular reforms in undergraduate medical education mean that many pathologists now find themselves involved in courses that are significantly different from those which they encountered as medical students.
However, not all students are interested to engage in online learning (Norwati & Zaini, 2007), especially those students who are engaged in courses that require a face-to-face learning environment, such as engineering.
