PLP_ Goal 2
Subscribe to the Chronicle of Higher Education and will read at least one journal article provided in their newsletter, Wired Campus, related to online teaching and learning. I will use this information as I complete assignments in this course and prepare to become a better online teacher.
Wired Campus
I subscribed to The Chronicle of Higher Education and got my
first email from Wired Campus today. It turns
out that Wired Campus is a Blog on the Chronicle’s website and you don’t have
to pay to subscribe to receive this online publication. They gave me a refund!!
I perused the articles and found two that I could
understand the language. The first article I read was
about 600,000 books in a remote-storage facility used by the libraries at the
University of Missouri having been contaminated by mold (Howard, 2014). As a lover of all things paper, I found this
news very distressing and one more reason to embrace all things online. A
university spokesman stated that all volumes must be treated or disposed of to
keep the mold from spreading. I have
just cleaned out my mother’s house and was marveling at how well her senior
class picture with individual snapshots had survived the test of time (over 75 years). We know from events at the Smithsonian that
it takes a lot of money and work to preserve paper. I’m thinking technology will be the key to
preserving history.
The second article that I read was connected to the last
post we did on "Engagement". The
administration at San Hose State University has adopted a new policy on how “technology-intensive,
hybrid, and online courses” may be developed and implemented on its campus
(Kolowich, 2014). The policy addressed concerns that university administrators have ignored the principles of shared
governance. The new policy states that
any partnerships with outside entities must be approved by majority vote of the
tenured or tenure track faculty in the department offering the course implementing the
same procedure used in the offering or of any new course or the modification of an existing course. The faculty senate will post the full text of
the final document on its website. Oh
the joy of politics!
Howard, J. (2014, January 31). Mold outbreak threatens
600,000 books at University of Missouri Library facility. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mold-outbreak-threatens-600000-books-at-u-of-missouri-library-facility/49985
Kolowich, S. (2014, January 31). San Jose University adopts new policy for
online and hybrid courses. Retrieved from
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/san-jose-state-u-adopts-new-policy-for-online-and-hybrid-courses/50029
Very interesting second article on policy changes and hybrid/blended courses. Not sure what they were doing specifically. Were they creating courses out side of the school's LMS? The one comment mentioned MOOCs - where they creating MOOCs which is open to everyone so that the school was not getting the revenue for providing the course? Interesting!
ReplyDeleteAt another institution where there is all standardized curriculum, a few of the instructors had issues with one course in particular. They had tried to get into the revision cycle, but changes weren't happening fast enough. So they created revised course content and led the students "off campus" to use non-sanctioned materials. It was quite a hub-bub when the strict management of curriculum was thwarted.
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