Faculty tend to shy away from the business aspects of higher education. Perhaps this is because business logic and business reasons have been used from time to time to justify change antithetical to what the faculty member believes is best for higher education. On their side, people who make decisions about higher education based on business realities don’t always take the time […]
» Read moreI know there’s a lot of confusion surrounding these hot topics when I hear from a faculty member who asks me “I don’t understand what the hype is about – isn’t this just like posting readings in Blackboard?” None of these topics is just like posting readings in Blackboard, but none of these things is really the same as any […]
» Read moreCompared to London’s Underground or Paris’ Metro, the New York subway seems to be a mess. It’s full, it’s filthy, and occasionally it catches on fire. There’s a reason for this, I’ve been told: the European systems were largely rebuilt after World War II, thus leapfrogging New York’s system which is just as old or older but has had significantly […]
» Read moreIt’s no longer possible to ignore the potential of integrating social networking with your teaching. Students actually prefer to have academic systems separate from their Facebook accounts, so when something happens like Missouri forbidding its K-12 teachers from having any contact with their students via Facebook, I don’t panic too much. Yes, it sets the cause of modernizing teaching back […]
» Read moreTrent Batson is a colleague who is always several steps ahead of me and I love his Campus Technology article, “10 Rules of Teaching in this Century“. If we really read and understood and debated all the suggestions of this article, we would know pretty much everything we need to know about teaching with technology today. It’s a short, sweet […]
» Read moreFor the last few Boot Camps I’ve made a passing mention of “digital citizenship” just to ask the question of whether or not we are addressing it sufficiently in higher education. The example I always use is to ask the question of whether or not our students are prepared to vote on questions having to do with electronic voting machines. […]
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