What the Commission Missed: The Proposed NCTE/ CCCC Resolution on the...
Inside Higher Ed recently reported that language important language regarding open source has been removed from the report from the Commission on the Future of Higher Education. At the last minute,...
View ArticleIt's not about bad students, it's about bad professors
From Slashdot today, I'm working at a major university in the US, and have been charged with posting pod-casts of class lectures on the internet. The problem is whether or not posting the videos would...
View Articleblogging in the news
Okay, it's not getting that much play, or any play, beyond the local media--two of my colleagues wrote me a note to comment positively on it--but here's the story I was interviewed for and a link to...
View ArticleWriting Skills Singled Out
As reported by Inside Higher Ed today, the Conference Board's Most Young People Entering the U.S. Workforce Lack Critical Skills Essential for Success is based on a survey of human resource personnel....
View Articledeclines in reading--should we care?
The NY Times reported yesterday that the less student's read, the less well they do on reading tests. That's a shocker, that one is. In our digital world, does this divide matter as much as the...
View ArticleRIAA bowing down to Washington (University of)?
A story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer indicates more resistance, maybe even growing resistance, to the RIAA strategy of going after students through the institution they attend. Here's the...
View ArticleTeaching "Conversational Skills" in Writing
I noticed Trent Baston has been writing some interesting opinion pieces for Campus Technology. Yesterday's article was "Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?" Here's the...
View ArticleCreative Writing and Comp Jobs (Tenure-Track) at Seton Hill University
English: Seton Hill University seeks published novelist of popular fiction (preferably mystery/suspense), to teach and to mentor novel-length theses in the graduate low-residency Writing Popular...
View ArticleSurvey of Open Source Adoption and Usage
Greetings. We are conducting a preliminary online survey aimed at assessing the role of open source software in the scholarly and pedagogical practices of the Rhetoric & Composition and English...
View ArticleResults--Survey on Open Source Adoption and Usage
Thanks to all of you who participated in the Survey on Open Source Adoption and Usage. We have included the results of the survey (with any identifying comments redacted to ensure confidentiality) on...
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