Many faculty may hope
to subvert the system, but a variety of social structures work
against them. Radical experiments in teaching carry no guarantees
and even fewer rewards in most tenure and promotion systems, even if
they are successful. In many cases faculty are required to assess
their students in a standardized way to fulfill requirements for the
curriculum. Nothing is easier to assess than information recall on
multiple-choice exams, and the concise and “objective”
numbers satisfy committee members busy with their own teaching and
research.
Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09Michael Wesch updates Machine is Us/ing us. 30 min video His point, our tools are changing us. Worth thinking about by us greybeards are his statistics about the number of hours of video uploaded to You Tube per day. For someone who remembers what a byte is, this is a paradigm shifting amount of data being moved and stored for free.
