Creating an Online Course: What's It Worth?

To the Editor:

There are two implicit assumptions in "Professors Seek Compensation for Online Courses" (The Chronicle, August 13): that online-course development is desirable and needs to be encouraged, and that such courses will not be produced if their development is not supported by compensation above what is normally provided.

I've worked in online-course development for over six years. I've seen good and horrible online courses. Online teaching is not the panacea we've

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