Migratory Faculty, Part II
June 5, 2006
Several months ago I posted about Migratory Faculty, a the term I have given to the collection of adjunct faculty who serve several institutions in a geographical area (or virtual) using course materials they maintain at non-edu sites, personal blogs for instance, rather than using an institutional LMS. This observation is just part of what could argueable be called Higher Ed. 2.0. Here’s another example of a Higher Ed. 2.0 professor “mashing” up his resource to do some out-of-the -box course design. Hmmm, I wonder how many committees he went through for aproval?
September 15, 2006 at 8:19 pm
[...] In my first post on migratory faculty I noted that faculty would use non-institutional resources to house their content, potentially side-stepping the institutional LMS and that this would be a characteristic of Higer Education 2.0. In Migratory Faculty, Part II, I shared a link to an article about a faculty member who decided that he would not use lecture hall lectures, but rather just podcast his lectures. My colleague, Zach Tirrell at nosheep.net posted an article about a professor who was charging $2.50 to his recorded lectures online at a non-university site. I thought that was a pretty interesting approach although I was certain that this would raise the interest of his school’s administration. Well sure enough, looks like they asked that he shut down his service down as reported in this Chronical article. I am certain there will be more creative models and entrepreurial opportunities that will be examined in the months and years ahead. [...]