Chuck Allison wrote: >Hello Frank, > >Some of the reasons cited below from your tech coordinator certainly >make sense, but not for the classroom. Businesses rightly are >concerned about vendor support, adequate testing, standards >conformance, etc. - it can make a big difference in costly projects. > > Part of the problem is structural, in a duely perverse way. In many institutional settings the approval process in linked to the procurement process. If there is no need to undertake a procurement process (it's free) there is nothing to which to attach an approval process. Approval is therefore an impossiblity.
But - again - simply pointing this out and expecting someone to put palm to forehead, and exclaim "of course - our system does not make sense in this regard, thanks for pointing that out. we will endeavor to change it" - is not what we are going to get. Promise. >But in small, informal classroom use, a teacher who knows Python can >give all the "support" that's needed. Fortunately at my college, I can >just tell the students to download whatever software and use it (they >all have their own computers - and I have it placed on our lab >computers as well - we have no bureaucracy to stop it - the IT people >are there to support the faculty, not impede them). Over-cautious >IT policies should not stand in the way of educating. Educating >bureaucrats in such separation of concerns is certainly in order. > > We have what we called in my day the AV (for audio-visual) department setting policy for physics teachers. Absurd as that it, it is a new reality of our new age. With the additional development that Headquarters has taken a new interest in the policies of the AV department. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
