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Two interesting developments in California - Daithi - 03-13-2013
According to this article from the New York Times, California may soon mandate that all public colleges in California (UC, CSU, and CC) will have to accept credit for courses from online alternatives if students can't enroll in a core curriculum course because it is full. Presumably this would apply to courses taken at ACE approved sites like Straighterline and Aleks, but the details appear a little sketchy in the article. Nevertheless, the article is pretty interesting. I look forward to seeing how this plays out.
The second thing that I found interesting, which may be old news to many of you, is that above article mentioned that last year California passed a law that will require open source digital textbooks for the top 50 courses taught at California's public colleges. This is the first I'd heard of this law.