Okay, so maybe I was wrong about the good folks at Texas A&M. Maybe I can convince the powers that be here at Mason that we need to implement the A&M reward system retroactive to last semester. If so, the result of my student evaluations for Lying About the Past would almost certainly pay for…
Tag: Hoaxes
You Were Warned (cont’d)
Over the past couple of weeks there has been a fair amount of discussion of my hoax course in the academic blogosphere. As one might expect from a discussion among academics, much of that discussion has been focused on the issues the course raised for education, the production of knowledge, and teaching in particular. Views…
You Were Warned
Back at the beginning of the semester I warned readers of this blog that I was teaching a course called Lying About the Past in which the students would — after studying historical hoaxes for half a semester — create a historical hoax and turn it loose on the Internet. They did just that and…
You Have Been Warned
It’s the first day of the semester–always a happy time for me–and particularly because this semester I have two small classes to teach (a luxury for me). Because I’m teaching a MWF schedule and our students generally loathe Fridays, my usually bursting East European survey course (52 students last fall) has only 18 students. I…