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Technical difficulties
We’ve had some strange technical happenings in my college today, and shortly after my class, my favorite tech wizard in the building appeared at my door: “I’ve been told to check your laptop for anything that may be causing network problems.” Lovely. So I begged for a few minutes to prep some mp3s for class […]
The purpose of seminars/discussion
I’m at THATcamp this weekend and having a great deal of fun. (Check the Twitter archive for tweets with the #thatcamp tag…) But there is a lot of serious stuff here, and I was hoping that it would confirm or undermine the way I’m currently thinking about the problems of teaching online. The demography of […]
One more reason not to use Elsevier
If fake journals created at the whim of pharmaceutical companies weren’t bad enough, how about paying people to assign five stars to textbooks in Amazon’s review system?
Being paid to sit in a/c
As Notorious Ph.D. wrote at the end of last week, most nine-month faculty do not get a vacation in summer but are just unemployed and often still have to work. Some such folks have plenty of resources to tide them over until the fall, others have a salary that is stretched out over twelve months, […]
Conversation often works … where it’s tried
Today, ACTA‘s Anne Neal thanked the AAUP and AACU for welcoming her outreach efforts.Towards the end of the blog entry, she writes, ACTA also shares many faculty members’ legitimate concern about administrative bloat and about trustees who lack a sensitive understanding of the special protocols and values that underwrite the unique enterprise of higher education. […]