Category Archives: Teaching

Social networking at the end of the university

By alex | Published: 4/4/2004
Peter Drucker, among others has claimed that the university only has a few more decades left, that it is gasping for its last breath. Of course, as with all such predictions, it is often appended with “as we know it,” which makes for a fairly safe prognosis. Despite the relatively short amount of time I’ve […]
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A = Average ?

By alex | Published: 3/25/2003
In the last couple of years, I’ve gotten a number of students who come to me and say something like “I didn’t get an A? What did I do wrong?” The A is the obvious grade, and a B means, to their mind, that they missed some significant requirement of the assignment. The idea that […]
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Cheating karma

By alex | Published: 12/15/2002
I‘ve used variations on a karma system in a number of classes over the last few years, but none as large as the 100-person “Media in the Information Age” last semester. It was something of a trial run, and there were imperfections. I guess it ranked the equivalent of a “revise and resubmit.” Two clear […]
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Capstone Seminar

By alex | Published: 5/31/2002
Afraid I lost all of the entries up until now when my host moved. No big loss, though :). I’m leading the capstone seminar for our new MA degree in informatics. Check out the syllabus!
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