This is a natural reaction. Faculty who are involved with traditional on-campus teaching have many concerns about teaching distance students, including how to adapt materials for a particular technology, how to interact with the students and how to best present material. From the individual campus perspective, faculty are also concerned with the time involved to develop a quality course for distance education, how a promotion and tenure committee will regard this effort and where they will get support. If you have specific questions that are not discussed here, please feel free to contact the Office of Distance Education at The University of Texas at Austin for assistance. Faculty Principles First and foremost, there are some faculty principles to read and understand.
Nothing replaces the live instructor in the classroom.
Students do not learn from the technology. They learn from competent instructors who teach through the technology. Students learn as well and as much from distance learning classes as from traditional classes. Traditional courses cannot be transported to a distance medium. They must be modified.