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Friday, August 16, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6590 Back to Basics and the Next Big Thing [Technology and Tenure] Phillip D. Long The other day I watched a lecture presentation that was held in the beginning of the 2001 academic year. Selected speakers invited to present on my campus are captured, with permission, on streaming media for later viewing. The practice is increasingly common and for good reason—we can’t attend all the events we’d like to, but we’d prefer not to miss out entirely. Others of us find hearing or seeing things again improves our understanding of the material. I’m a little slow so this helps me a lot. I listened to the narrative of a faculty member, whom for the sake of privacy, we’ll call Alex. He had mortgaged his career on teaching with technology and found himself nearly bankrupted by the experience. Before going on, let me tell the good news: he recovered and received tenure, an outcome that anyone who has seen this fellow teach would have expected. Still, it was touch and go since he hadn’t written a major opus in his discipline and instead had invested considerable effort into exploring new teaching approaches with technology. In the recurring nightmare of sixth year faculty, things didn’t go well, almost on cue....
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