What are we learning?

Michael Wesch of Kansas State Uni­ver­sity pro­duced this video com­men­tary on class­room learn­ing. I found it inter­est­ing. I haven’t been in a “cattle-call hall” since my under­grad­u­ate years. I don’t miss these large class­rooms at all. They’re cold and impersonal.

I do enjoy teach­ing online and in our friendly small class­rooms at HPU! Twenty-four stu­dents seems like the right size for a grad­u­ate class.

Mul­ti­ple choice exams are fine, when used in mod­er­a­tion. But objec­tive ques­tions can­not mea­sure mas­tery of a sub­ject, espe­cially when the text­book publisher’s test bank is avail­able through Google.

I give writ­ing assign­ments because man­agers must develop excel­lent writ­ten com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills. The Inter­net has not changed that requirement.

Thanks to Abe Gru­ber (Face­book pro­file, per­sonal site) for this link!

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