February 5, 2012

Article: College Credit for Rosetta Stone

From http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/27/educators-question-taking-rosetta-stone-credit

Rosetta Reservations
by Mitch Smith
January 17, 2012

Depending on whom you ask, Rosetta Stone is either modernizing higher education or jeopardizing the quality of foreign language instruction by offering classes for transferrable college credit.

Rosemary Feal, executive director of the Modern Language Association and a Spanish professor, calls the idea “scandalous.”

David McAlpine, president of the board of directors for the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), said teaching a Spanish class completely online threatens educational standards and leaves students floundering behind their peers in traditional courses.

But James Madison University officials say the academic demands in an online class they offer through Rosetta Stone are the same ones that students face in their Harrisonburg, Va., lecture halls.

In April, James Madison became the first college to partner with Rosetta Stone, an international company that creates instructional language software, to offer a for-credit course to the general public in which instruction is provided by the company's software.

Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/27/educators-question-taking-rosetta-stone-credit#ixzz1kuacvKCe

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