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October 03, 2007, 03:20 PM ET
DePaul U. Students Meet Professors on iTunes
Meet Rocky Perkovich, a visiting assistant professor of management at DePaul University and a labor lawyer. He likes a lot of debate and dissent in his classes, and he’s sympathetic to students who have to work all day while carrying a full-time college course load because he did the same thing himself.
Mr. Perkovich is among several professors at DePaul’s College of Commerce that are featured on iTunes’s video podcasts describing their professional background and teaching objectives. While the professors talk to the camera, pictures that illustrate what they’re saying flash in the background. As Mr. Perkovich starts chatting about his years as an investigator at the National Labor Relations Board, for example, the agency’s logo appears behind him.
Another DePaul video shows Kelly Pope, an assistant accounting professor, welcoming her Taiwanese students to her class. She travels there to teach. She warns them to make sure they do the assigned reading before coming to class and shows them a photograph of her husband and two-year-old son.
The videos serve two purposes, says James Moore, director of distance learning for the College of Commerce, who helped to produce the videos. They help guide students in choosing courses and they serve as icebreakers for students about to enter their first classes. The university started producing the videos to introduce professors to students in DePaul’s graduate business programs in the Czech Republic, Bahrain, and Taiwan. —-Andrea L. Foster
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