Can online teaching be outsourced to professionals in other countries?
A recent Chronicle of Higher Education post http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/04/05/statistics entitled “The Specialists” recounts how http://www.Statistics.com hopes to produce college credit courses. It now produces courses, designed by college faculty and private sector statisticians, for professionals.
However, the article states that: “The company outsources grading and other work to master’s degree-holders in India for much less than it would cost to employ similarly qualified teaching assistants in the United States.” This would seem to indicate that the company owns the copyright to the courses and that they then use Indian professors, presumably at a lower salary, to do the actual teaching.
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