In my continuing rant about the end of the course as we know it I offer further evidence. Yesterday’s Washington Post included a story about the revival of the music single in the digital age. According to Post writer J. Freedom du Lac (don’t you just love that name?) more than one-third of all music…
Combining the Old and the New
I teach my introductory survey course in tandem with a colleague in the English department as part of a freshman learning community program. As a result, there is a lot more writing in my survey than is typical in a university Western Civ course. One of the assignments we designed last semester was a “personal…
Wiki Washington
Well, it seems that at least one community can’t be trusted with access to the Wikipedia. That would be the U.S. Congress. Over the weekend, the Washington Post ran a story about the Wikipedia’s decision to ban edits to entries coming from House of Representatives and Senate IP addresses. It seems that the staff members…
The Future of the Course (cont’d)
It turns out that what I was predicting in an earlier posting is already happening. The University of Michigan Dental School is using Apple’s iTunesU interface to provide all of their course content via the iTunes interface. How is this changing the educational experience at this particular dental school? Lynn Johnson, Associate Professor of Dentistry…