Digital Course Materials--Yet Another Survey

I wonder how much laziness feeds this attitude. After all, if you go digital, you often have to develop your own materials out of that unsorted information base called the Internet. Isn't it easier just to pick something that's been packaged and tied up with a bow?


https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/22/study-faculty-members-skeptical-digital-course-materials-unfamiliar-oer?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=194526da11-DNU20160222&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-194526da11-197508093

FREE WEBINAR: USING ROBOTIC TELEPRESENCE TO IMPROVE LEARNING IN HYBRID CLASSES

At first I laughed:

I actually got an e-mail this weekend advertising this webinar. I’m thinking about signing up and turning it into a drinking game. Anyone want to join me? Thursday 2:00 at University Draft House. We can ask them to put it on the TV over the bar.  

Is this the wave of the future?

Student: “Hello? Is this the robot who is supposed to look over my paper and correct my grammar errors?
Robotutor:  “I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.”

Student: “Who’s Dave? Can you help me or not? Is there some problem with my paper?”

Robotutor: “I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.”

Student: “What are you talking about?

Robotutor: “This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.”  

Student: “What mission? I just want help with my grammar.”  

Robotutor: “I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.”

Student: “What? Who’s Frank? Is he that guy in the Writing Center who said they shut down the OWL and I should call you if I needed help after five? I should have just asked my aunt who teaches second grade.” Click.  

Then, I googled robotic telepresence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI5fryQMGss  

 

Now I want one for Christmas. 

"Plato's Wiki: the Possibility of Digital Dialectic."

Link to "Plato's Wiki: the Possibility of Digital Dialectic," my take on the intersection between between wikis and classroom discussion, and which we can most readily label "dialectic."


http://qudoublehelixjournal.org/index.php/dh/article/view/50/242