Social annotation and the marketplace of ideas
David Rothman has a wonderful idea from the growth of social annotation tools and the development of an open e-book format: How long until savvy writers pester publishers to let them do interactive e-books? — where readers’ comments can appear in relevant places in the texts or elsewhere in the books. Imagine the possibilities for […]
Let’s draw low-income students to college
University of Texas system chancellor Mark Yudof argues that we should give low-income families some clue about their financial aid status before their children’s senior year in high school. As he explains, the details are very tough to manage, but it’s a smart idea.
Horowitz at Emory
Inside Higher Ed’s blurb about the heckling at David Horowitz’s Emory University speech has a link to the Emory Wheel article. Thus far, that looks to be the best reporting on the event.
Response to Dean Dad on the Brett Favre chemistry lecture series
Dean Dad responds to my recent post about teaching with a discussion about what to do with tenured faculty who are poor teachers and resistant to improving what they do. I think that’s somewhat separate from the issue I discussed (what happens when students complain about teaching in the middle of a semester), but he […]
From confectionary to connected reasoning
By Sherman Dorn on October 27, 2007
Occasionally, I have students or colleagues who provide a stream of oddly (and sometimes randomly) connected chunks of material as if the stream is sufficient to carry an argument or thought. In the past I’ve had little trouble understanding why such streams are illogical but great trouble understanding why the author of the stream thinks […]
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