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Posts tagged as “Teaching”
Student comments are posted on Duckweb now. My favorite so far? He was very engaging and really knew the material. He only had to use powerpoint once. Post the good, bad and ugly here. 12/16/12.
While UO’s Interim Provost Jim Bean is famously confused about how many Non-Tenure Track teaching faculty UO has, it’s clear they have a large and increasing role here and everywhere. Here’s an excellent story in InsideHigherEd about the costs and benefits of that. 10/3/2012.
There’s an excellent Insidehighered report here about the use of technology in teaching. I’d be interested in comments from people who’ve tried the flipped classroom idea. 8/24/2012
I’m posting this as a place for people to comment on what they think are important priorities for UO campus buildings and what features should be prioritized in new classrooms. 8/22/2012. A commenter notes that Academic Affairs has a committee and a website for reporting issues with specific classrooms: http://academicaffairs.uoregon.edu/committee-academic-infrastructure
If you go to duckweb > faculty > course administration you will now find “view class photos” under the drop down action menu. They come out in an easy to print format. Thank you so much to whoever made that happen – a very useful teaching crutch for us prosopagnosia…
Read Interim Provost Jim Bean’s 2010 op-ed in the Oregonian, defending the decision to spend $1.83 million a year of regular students’s tuition money on the athlete only Jacqua Center for Student Athletes – or as the NY Times calls it, the Jock Box. Then read about how Duck AD Rob…
8/19/2010: Via Marginal Revolution: Perceptions of a tattooed college instructor. Wiseman DB. Psychology Department, Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738, USA. [email protected] Abstract 128 undergraduates’ perceptions of tattoos on a model described as a college instructor were assessed. They viewed one of four photographs of a…
4/17/2010: Steve Duin of the Oregonian has a column about Poli-Sci firing instructor Ken De Bevoise. I’d honestly never heard of this guy until his students started a movement to reinstate him. From the interview with VP for Academic Affairs Russ Tomlin, it appears possible that UO will in fact…