Baylor University’s Faculty Senate has passed a resolution by a vote of 29-0 chastising the administration for its lack of shared governance, the Waco Tribune-Herald reports. The resolution is a response to an alarming jump in the number of faculty members denied tenure by Baylor University’s administration despite the approval of their departments and the universitywide tenure committee, the reporter, Tim Woods, writes. Read more.
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10 Responses to Baylor U.’s Faculty Senate Passes Resolution Criticizing Administration
jjulius - March 12, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Some great thoughts here, but why the inclusion of the bogus “Learning Pyramid” graphic? This has been thoroughly discredited; the definitive exploration remains: http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html
Gabe Gossett - March 12, 2012 at 4:39 pm
This is my second term using Googledocs in my research strategies class. Based on that experience I think there is a lot of potential for how it can be used to support learning about the research process. It lets me be more responsive to the learning obstacles that students encounter as they do their assignments because I can see when those obstacles come up and give helpful feedback. It is also an easy way for students to respond to each other’s assignments if you use a peer-review process in your class. Googledocs is also good at showing the development of a document and having a conversation about the content and writing being worked on (usually in inserted notes, but also in the live chat function).
I’ve been trying to think of how this level of support could be integrated into classes that I provide support for as a librarian. I’m not entirely sure we are at a point where that is possible. I don’t think it is that the technology is not there. It is. But I think that faculty and students would need a better idea of how it would really work for them. I have no doubt that this type of approach to research services will be important in the future though.
Allex_Kaddi10 - March 13, 2012 at 5:23 am
Google docs is an phenomenal tool for education system, be it for teacher or parents or the students. With writing environment we must train students on many aspects like sharing and collaboration of data, creating forms, online surveys etc. For all of this we would need tools such as CollateBox http://www.collatebox.com/ which can increase the productivity of students, which can result in better efficiency.
rlibrary - March 13, 2012 at 10:55 am
Your idea sounds similar to the rationale behind The Connected Scholar: http://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/proj/connected-scholar.
AlexSam555 - March 13, 2012 at 11:05 am
I haven’t come across neither of the tools which are mentioned below, so just went through both and a particular aspect of Collatebox strikes me, Its that how could it be tool for educational institution alone??, with the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KruqWWiw1s it seems more sort of a business tool to me but got a thought that Google Docs was also a business tool earlier.
Also I feel that if CollateBox can really make forms, online databases, online data sharing then it must be used in a certain way for educational institutions and a lot will depend on the mentors than students.
tussey - March 13, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Granted, the tools available through Google Docs are amazing and facilitate collaboration in valuable ways. A major problem, however, is whether or not Google is mining these docs, which are part of a student’s academic record, for marketing purposes. If so, then that’s a violation of the students’ FERPA rights. While most students are unaware and disinterested in this, some are concerned. We should be careful when requiring students to use tools that may prove to be a violation of their privacy.
jack_peters - March 14, 2012 at 1:39 am
Very well said Tussey. It’s a biggest concern for few student’s and Google takes advantage of this. There’s very less that a student can do about this. Now I feel the best thing we can do is start looking at some alternatives, N thanks KrisN for Collatebox, the video looks awesome, very keen on observing this product’s progress in the near future.
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krstetson - April 5, 2012 at 9:22 am
Regarding the historical development of computers, I recommend Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Pantheon, 2012), a new book by George Dyson, son of Freeman Dyson. It is the story of John von Neumann’s team that was formed in 1945 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton to design, build, and program an electronic digital computer, intended to be a physical realization of Turing’s Universal Machine.
preciousloveu - April 21, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Some great thoughts on the article. Must say that I’ve been using googledocs a bit more because of my classmates and it has made it easier for us to do group assignments.