November 26, 2004

Outsourcing Online Courses to Other Colleges

To the Editor:

I do not see any problem with quality in outsourcing course preparation to another institution ("More Professors Teach by Using Other Colleges' Online Courses," The Chronicle, October 15). When new faculty members are hired, they do not start developing new courses; they are assigned courses that colleagues have developed. ...

In addition, professors use textbooks that were written by outside authors to teach their classes. In many cases, the adopted texts

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