Schools, Research, Relevance
The following was sent to the Moodle Lounge. Business schools and research | Practically irrelevant? | Economist.com My own reaction to this piece… Well, well… The title and the tone are, IMHO, rather...
View ArticleFinally! A Drinking Age Debate
This may be more significant than people seem to assume: university and college administrators in the United States are discussing the potential effects of reverting the drinking age back to the age of...
View ArticleIntello-Bullying
A topic which I’ll revisit, to be sure. But while I’m at it… I tend to react rather strongly to a behaviour which I consider the intellectual equivalent of schoolyard bullying. Notice that I don’t...
View ArticleBlogging Academe
LibriVox founder and Montreal geek Hugh McGuire recently posted a blog entry in which he gave a series of nine arguments for academics to blog: Why Academics Should Blog Hugh’s post reminded me of one...
View ArticleStudent Engagement: The Gym Analogy (Updated: Credited)
Heard about this recently and probably heard it before. It’s striking me more now than before, for some reason. [Update: I heard about this analogy through Peace Studies scholar Laurie Lamoureux...
View ArticleI Am Not a Guru
“Nor do I play one online!” The “I am not a ” phrase is often used as a disclaimer when one is giving advice. Especially in online contexts having to do with law, in which case the IANAL acronym can be...
View ArticlePrivilege: Library Edition
When I came out against privilege, over a month ago, I wasn’t thinking about libraries. But, last week, while running some errands at three local libraries (within an hour), I got to think about...
View ArticleActively Reading: "Teach Naked" sans PowerPoint
Some Diigo comments on a Chronicle piece on moving lectures out of the classroom. (Or, if you ask the piece’s author and some commenters, on PowerPoint as a source of boredom.) I’d like to transform...
View ArticleFree from Freelance
For my Happiness Anniversary, this year, I got myself a brand new job. Ok, it was two days late and a job isn’t really a gift. But it’s the thought that counts. We’ll see how things go, but the...
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