Here’s a taste:
Last week I did a quick survey of how the Internet and web publishing can completely change the way students write – the Internet gives students a real audience for their writing, it expands the content of their writing (images!), allowing them to link and be-linked-to, while promoting continual revision throughout the semester. Does Blackboard, a web-based course management system, take advantage of any of these features? It does not. Blackboard lets faculty members share documents with students, but it does nothing to promote web publishing by students.
Thank you, Laura Gibbs. It’s long past time for schools and other teaching institutions to stop counting bullet points in glossy brochures and start looking at which platforms have the features (and implementations of those features) to actually facilitate good teaching.
Michael Feldstein is the founder of e-Literate who currently works as the Senior Program Manager for MindTap at Cengage Learning. For more information, see his profile page.
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