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My Students’ Take on PowerPoint

Posted on April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 by Mills

As I do every semester in my course The Digital Past, yesterday I asked my students what drives them crazy about how their faculty members use PowerPoint and other slideware in class. Herewith, their litany of complaint: The inclusion of random slides that don’t seem to pertain to what the professor is discussing Slides with…

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More Than a Few Tough Things (3)

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Mills

In my second post in this series I took on my colleague Steve Pearlstein‘s argument that “universities” should engage in less research, more teaching. In this final post in the series, I want to take up his argument about general education. Cheaper, better general education. The reform of general education is something I’ve had a…

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More Than a Few Tough Things (2)

Posted on December 1, 2015December 2, 2015 by Mills

In my previous post in this series, a response to a column my colleague Steve Pearlstein wrote in the Washington Post over the weekend, I discussed some difficult choices that public universities will need to make in the future as enrollments change, legislative investment declines, and options for students proliferate. And just to be clear,…

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Back to the Future

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Mills

It’s all but impossible for me to believe it, but 10 years ago this week I wrote my first post in this blog. And, oddly enough, this post is #500. If I were a numerologist I’m sure I could make something of that symmetry. Way back in 2005, that first post was about my attempts…

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