What happens to educational freedom when all online classes are prescribed as Ready-to-Teach classes?

The intent of the new environment, whether it’s part of the pilot or at the end once we’re fully implemented, is that there will be two frameworks. One will be a kind of common framework for course design focusing on accessibility, whether it’s related to disability accessibility or mobile device accessibility, we want to have some kind of common navigation. Along this line, things will be designed and deployed centrally and made available to the colleges. This is just a common framework, it is not the content of the course, it’s the framework of the course. The second framework is Ready-to-Teach. The Ready-to-Teach will be a more fully designed course environment where a person could step in and the course learning materials, assignments, and assessments are there. However, the instructor has the choice of whether or not to use it. And so, everyone uses the common framework, which is the accessibility components, but the instructor chooses whether they want a Ready-to-Teach model or if they want to design those components themselves. Where you don’t have choices, the very base framework, again, the accessibility, the navigation, those pieces. But everything content related, the instructor of the course would have the choice to have nothing developed for them, or a fully developed module or something in between, so we feel like the academic freedom still resides with the instructor.