The Digital Campus podcast has grown. What was once a three-way conversation between myself, Tom Scheinfeldt, and Dan Cohen, has grown into a four-way conversation that includes our regular irregular Amanda French. Our most recent episode just went live online and is the first to feature Amanda as a formal member of the podcast team….
A joyful noise
In my last post I discussed my decision to teach 80 students (now 77) without lecturing. I’ve been wondering how it is going until today. When I walked into class this morning there were already 20-25 students in the room and instead of sitting there staring straight ahead or checking their phones for new text…
Can you teach 80 students without lecturing?
This semester I’m teaching an undergraduate course on the history of human trafficking (20th/21st centuries). When I planned the course I thought I would probably get between 35-45 students. Working from that assumption, I structured the course in such a way that there would be no lecturing the entire semester. I have 80 students. To…
E-Text Job
In the most recent installment of Digital Campus we discussed the rise of the e-textbook on college campuses and wondered how much longer it would take before e-texts replaced paper and glue texts as the primary vehicle for the delivery of information to students. The very next day my friend Sherry Linkon, co-director of Youngstown…