“We don’t want to just hurry up and write a new set of policies that’s going to be outdated two weeks after we write it,” Faust said, adding that a policy will be University-wide.
Engell’s presentation was not the meeting’s first mention of online courses. History professor Charles S. Maier ’60, a former Crimson Editorial chair, asked that Harvard’s edX administrators address comments by Stanford president John Hennessy in an interview with the Financial Times, where he pointed out flaws in online education.
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