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Score One For Distance Learning
The trend towards online and distance learning courses at the university level has increased for the past decade and will continue to do so. The National Center for Education predicts there will be...
View ArticleThe Video Oral Communication Assessment Tool and the Question of Openness
It recently occurred to me that in the almost 4 years of this blog’s existence very little has been said about the Schwartz Communication Institute’s most ambitious and potentially most promising...
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Freshbloggers
This semester, we’re managing our largest lift on Blogs@Baruch yet. In addition to an increasing variety of projects that I’ll blog about in the coming weeks, every Freshman Seminar at Baruch currently...
View ArticleCampus Technology article: Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech
Eva Fernández of Queens College recently shared this interesting article with us on Facebook. I thought it might be of interest to many of you. It’s funny that I am forwarding this as it is almost like...
View ArticleAgents of the Information Age? Perhaps Not.
Last month, Lauren blogged about Helene Hegemann, a 17-year old author from Germany whose novel Axolotl Roadkill has become a best-seller and a finalist for a major prize in fiction—despite the fact...
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Two Social Media Paradoxes
Paradox Number One: Social media foments revolution, but a sudden removal of social media can increase mobilization and create even more unrest. We can all stand witness to the ways in which social...
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Knowledge Politics #1: Critical University Studies
Following my last post, I had a bit of a heated exchanged with a commenter named Ryan. What came up for me from that was a desire to more fully articulate the relationship between knowledge and...
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Making it Personal
The struggling Chinese immigrants I met during my anthropological fieldwork are remarkably active online, and most own computers and have DSL/cable, even though they are often very poor. In...
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Me, My Blog and the Librarian
I just finished teaching a summer graduate course in Qualitative Research. This is a course that I love to teach, as it is, in my opinion, a genuine learning by doing course. It is a course that asks...
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Making Sense of the Transition to College
“Big Fish Little Pond” Making Sense of the Transition to College Perhaps not surprisingly, it really matters what we ask students to write. As instructors, and support staff, one way we can help...
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