Yahoo! Groups : TechRhet Messages :Message 3505 of 4210 We talked about the draconian "contract" requiring faculty to use
WebCT.

We talked about copyright issues. And Intellectual property issues.
And academic freedom issues. And security issues.

The dean indicated that the online DE decisions, for example to use
WebCT for all online courses, the decisions were made by a committee,
and none of these issues -- I mean NONE -- came up. They weren't
aware of them, and didn't think from the point of view of faculty who
teach online; especially they didn't think about faculty who are
experienced with other technologies for teaching online courses.

Somehow... in the midst of the conversation, I became a member of the
MWSC Distance Education committee.

Now would someone tell me how THAT happened?