Janet Napolitano no fan of online education....

http://news.yahoo.com/university-californias-napolitano-joins-skeptics-over-online-courses-011037651.html

The comments were the most illuminating part of the article. The stance she is reported to be taking irks me a bit as it doesn't seem to really address paid online courses, I think the free Penn courses mentioned are free MOOC's...not an apples to apples comparison.

Like many (most?) of you I have had good online courses and less than stellar online courses, likewise I have experienced gifted classroom teaching and poor classroom teaching. I'm certainly not convinced the medium is the biggest determinant of quality.