"It forces you to come to grips with questions that were never necessary," Fineberg says.
Knowles says that the revised version of the stipulations offers a broader sense of what teaching can mean to accommodate changes brought by the Internet.
"The substantive changes in the statement do bring us more up-to-date, in the sense that years ago there were text books at one end of the spectrum, and professors lecturing in the classroom, at the other," he says. "Now, the new technologies bridge this gap."
Which materials can be put online and which cannot are among the biggest gray areas for administrators--things the advisory group hopes to clarify.
If it is free and available to everyone--not exclusive to one curriculum at another school--then it might be permissible, Thompson says.
The closer something is to being an exclusive "course" for credit, the less likely it is to be allowed.
Thompson also says that professors are not permitted to make deals with information and online distributors.
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