Waiting for the Green I teach at a community college in Iowa. At the end of the Winter Term last year, someone got the idea that we adjuncts could go from eight checks every semester to four. Of course, there’s money to be saved, from...
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by Evelyn Beck Adjuncts are at the heart of a battle brewing on American campuses about academic freedom in on-line teaching. It is becoming increasingly apparent to many that distance.
by P.D. Lesko September is a very busy month for part-time faculty. Some aren’t sure what their final teaching schedules will look like, others have their courses, but need to.
by Melissa Doak REMEMBER THOSE OLD t.v. commercials for correspondence courses? I do. At eleven years old, I was fascinated with all the things I could choose to learn by mail. Why did anyone go to college when they could call a toll-free number for...
by Evelyn Beck “OF THE PEOPLE, by the people, for the people…” Those famous words from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address referred to the U.S. government. But they might also apply.
Analog: A signal that is received in the same form in which it is transmitted, while the amplitude and frequency may vary. Amplitude: The amount of variety in a signal..
by Jo Gibson Adjunct faculty have a wide comfort zone: they prepare lectures, monitor classroom discussion, devise tests, assign grades--no problem! However, even for faculty with wide-ranging professional skills and experience, on-line teaching can be a hard sell. Consider Dr. David Dutton [pseud.], professor and...
by Evelyn Beck To celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., the Franklin Institute used its museum website to help high school students discover.
by Evelyn Beck It will take longer than you think. That’s some of the wisdom offered by one course designer about the process of moving your traditional classroom on-line. Cynthia.
by Mark Macneill ON A MODEST annual household income of just under $100,000 Canadian ($64,000 in U.S. dollars), my young family of four was struggling to keep up with the Joneses. So a few years ago, I decided to make some lifestyle changes and left...
