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Video Projects, not Video Viewing
One good thing that I hope emerges from our whole discussion on curricular video and copyright is an extension of...
Sequestration reality check
The last time I did algebra in these pages, I crashed and burned. But the compulsion, triggered by President Obama's...
Motherhood after tenure: evaluation time
We received our fall semester course evaluations on the first day of the spring semester. The timing seems akin to...
Course Evaluations, Years Later
Professors may get much better feedback by waiting a while -- and then asking students to reflect on what stayed with them, writes Tom Deans.
Are Green Jobs the New Metric System?
A few years ago I mentioned my bewilderment at why the failure of the push to adopt the metric system...
In praise of Gordon Gekko
Today, I got lucky. It's usually better to be lucky than good (a poker player told me that one). It's...
Mashing not Viewing
Is the debate we are having about copyright and online streaming of course video (behind a password through the LMS)...
ABCs and PhD's: The five-year plan
When I was pregnant with my daughter and unsure what was going to happen to my academic career, a woman...