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Burnt Out Adjunct
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- Author: Piss Poor
- Listed in: Education and Training Democratic Technology
- Tags: education teaching higher education adjunct role of college online teaching
- Added on: Jul 5th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
abd PhD sloughing through ten years of adjunct teaching, providing original thoughts on all things social, political, religious et. al.
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“Google is not research.”
On the surface, this seems to be a self-evident truism; a bane of all instructors looking at the paltry bibliographies of their student’s “research” papers. A topic is assigned, the student does their due diligence by “Googling” expected k...
"The Last Professors" an interview
InsideHigherEd.com has a interview with Frank Donoghue about his book "The Last Professor." While the interview sounds a rather pessimistic (realistic?) view of the future of tenor, the meat of the discussion--alluded to but not explored--is in the ...
Interesting "facts"
I got this list as an e-mail forward, so it must be all true:-Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.>>> -The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is> the male sperm.>> -You use 200 muscles to take one ste...
BlackBoard should "opt out"
InsideHigherEd wrote about Blackboard syncing with Facebook to provide a class link (which is what ultimately worked out) through the social networking site. BlackBoard, in doing so, comes off as a the creepy old dude still trying to look cool.One o...
Turn It In.com can pay me to go to SF
InsideHigherEd has a story, with some attempt at breathless expose, outlining TII's solicitation to pay travel to San Fransisco's CCCC convention next year. Catch is, the paper should be nice to TII. The same paper has to be initially approved by t...
