In light of my last post on Publish or Perish: The Plague of Academia, I ran across a ten part series called “Scholarly Communication Must Transform,” written by Gideon Burton, an Assistant Professor in the English department at one of my alma maters, Brigham Young University. In this series, Gideon discusses his views on the [...]
Over the last couple of weeks, there has been some discussion online about the worth of peer review. Is it valuable, or is it antiquated? As an Assistant Professor who goes up for tenure next fall, allow me to contribute my two cents. I guess the real question behind this whole publish or perish (which [...]
One of the things that I love the most about Oklahoma State University is our own Edmond Low Library. Some of the other schools that I’ve either attended or taught at had old libraries, but none of them was as cool as Edmond Low. It SMELLS like old books. As I was thinking about it [...]
Well, I can’t figure out what’s going on with my links and embedded video in Desire2Learn, so I’m just going to recreate it here. With that said, here’s the message I couldn’t get to display properly in Desire2Learn: Hey guys! This week we’ll learn a little bit about Web 2.0 and Web 2.0 technologies. Let’s [...]
I’ve had some people ask me to post some more of my thoughts on instructional design and certification. They were interested in the conversations Cammy Bean and I have had about those topics, and wondered where those conversations were going. Today Cammy e-mailed me, and she and I have been going back and forth, and [...]