McIntosh said you can also spin it the opposite way. It is part of the schizophrenic nature of UMM to be doing this at all. UMM is the liberal arts campus of a major research university and it is the continuing education and extension branches of major universities that are providing web courses. Kissock said GenEdWeb is offered by a major research university. He is teaching one of the GenEdWeb courses.
Quality is a key issue.
Defining what quality consists of is not easy. If there is anything that UMM is, it is undergraduate education. In 32 years, this is the first technological tool that Kissock has seen that offers everything he needs. One of the first things the GenEdWeb faculty asked was whether they could use the web technology in their day school classes. Faculty are already asking to do that.