Apr

22

Who Put Your Exam on the Web?

April 22, 2009 | by Will Millhiser | 6 Comments

The year was 1997. During a graduate school take-home exam in abstract algebra, one of my fellow students emailed the questions to AskDrMath.com and received answers before the exam was due.
Fast forward to 2005. One of my international graduate students showed me a website hosted in his home country (in a language not based on [...]

Nov

21

The Devil is in the Details

November 21, 2008 | by Tomasello | 7 Comments

Several decades ago, when my dissertation advisor told me to “spice up” my writing, I realized that the better my prose became, the more I moved away from the facts–what I saw as “the truth.” Whereas I knew for a fact that “in March 1347, the papal treasury paid five silver pounds for fur hats [...]

Sep

29

Viral Video, Donor Dollars, and Academic Integrity: Poor Students versus Freedom of Speech?

September 29, 2008 | by Sarah Ryan | Leave a Comment

This summer, two of my colleagues became the subject of a YouTube viral video. Maybe you heard about the swearing, pants-dropping debate coaches (well, only one dropped his drawers) videotaped (with their consent) at the national cross-examination debate tournament… It was quite a spectacle. Since then, the video has been taken down, the debate association [...]

Sep

22

Writing Better Learning Objectives

September 22, 2008 | by Leah Schanke | 4 Comments

When I attended the Zicklin Business School Summer Teaching Seminar in 2007 (and again this year), the first thing I noticed was that the terms “learning goals” and “learning objectives” are used interchangeably. This seems to be the case throughout much of the College. From my training and experience in strategic management and following the [...]