Lazy professors lead to lazy students. The solution -- Blue Books. "Come to class. No tech in the room. Open your Blue Books, please. You will find the test on your desk. It is a new test just for this class. There are five different tests randomly distributed among you. Please show your work. Please begin. You have 90 minutes."…
Lazy professors lead to lazy students. The solution -- Blue Books. "Come to class. No tech in the room. Open your Blue Books, please. You will find the test on your desk. It is a new test just for this class. There are five different tests randomly distributed among you. Please show your work. Please begin. You have 90 minutes." Yes, the grading will take longer. Yes, the professor may have less time to do research. However, the core responsibility of the university ... to teach and send responsible young adults into the world ... will more likely be fulfilled.
Of course, now grade 500 of those tests in the next few days......................along with publishing and your committee work. LOL In a bureaucratic system it is bureaucratic values of efficiency that are the order of the day. Our academies were designed in the pre-bureaucratic era...................
Lazy professors lead to lazy students. The solution -- Blue Books. "Come to class. No tech in the room. Open your Blue Books, please. You will find the test on your desk. It is a new test just for this class. There are five different tests randomly distributed among you. Please show your work. Please begin. You have 90 minutes." Yes, the grading will take longer. Yes, the professor may have less time to do research. However, the core responsibility of the university ... to teach and send responsible young adults into the world ... will more likely be fulfilled.
Of course, now grade 500 of those tests in the next few days......................along with publishing and your committee work. LOL In a bureaucratic system it is bureaucratic values of efficiency that are the order of the day. Our academies were designed in the pre-bureaucratic era...................
And the truth.....you shouldn't really have 500 students.
Agreed..................and you don't need as many administrators as students either!!!