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  • Harvard “Exam” “Cheating” Scandal rumbles on

    The Great Harvard Cheating Scandal of 2012 rumbles on, with more details emerging which make it seem to me that it was neither “cheating” nor was it an “examination”.  Regardless of what the official course syllabus stipulates, contradictory guidance from a professor and 4 teaching assistants, along with accepted practice and failures to catch this…

  • Can I make Twitter a requirement for my students?

    Harold Jarche is one of the most popular bloggers dealing with social networking, and for good reason – he is insightful. His blog post from yesterday gathers ideas which prompt me to wonder why I haven’t already made twitter a requirement in my courses, and how I can overcome the obstacles to using it in…

  • Expanding SOTL problem

    Action research in any form has a funny – or not funny – way of running away on you. I’ve been doing a bit of SOTL work on the wargame design task in my Hi2007 class, and next term I thought I would have a research plan to  finish of my Masters in Teaching &…

  • Subversion

    I’m looking for some (moderately) radical students to help subvert the top-down model that dominates the Irish university sector. I do a quite a bit of research in the Scholarship of  Teaching and Learning, and I have a couple of things going on which I am keen to open up a bit and get some…

  • Unpacking ISSOTL09

    I’m back from ISSTOL09 and unpacking my luggage, physical and mental. I had a great time in Bloomington, visited several great restaurants in good company, did my paper, talked a lot with the other historians in HistSoTL which led to a long list of future SoTL projects. That work will keep me and many others…

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