[9:30] Today and tomorrow I’m at the conference Playing With Technology in History at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Day one is an unconference focused on the edges of the envelope in humanities computing. The sessions during the day include things like wearable computers, serious games, MakerBots and CraftRobo, barely games, walkabout applications for phones, along with good…
Author: Mills
Productivity in Higher Education (2)
In the Summer 2008 issue of Innovations, Henry Kelly, President of the Federation of American Scientists published an article titled “Continuous Improvement in Undergraduate Education: A Possible Dream” in which he argued that a variety of factors, among them growing global demand for higher education and the availability of new technologies for the delivery of…
Productivity in Higher Education
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of productivity in higher education. There are many ways to measure what we accomplish such as numbers of graduates, what kinds of jobs our graduates get, research dollars, patents received, research productivity (publishing), just to name some of the most obvious. But any discussion of such…
Almost Approved
So, after 1 year, 3 months, and 13 days, the General Education Committee acted on the proposal I submitted on behalf of our department for a new course called The Digital Past. And, of course, the course was not approved. Their reasoning works like this…After I submitted the proposal, the Committee decided to rewrite the…