Re: [tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread David Campbell
I realize that Christopher's post dealt with the idea of sponsors stepping up to fund courses that were at risk of being cancelled due to budget limitations. But Annette's reply raised a different issue -- one that I keep confronting. She said "... I envision: a few enterprising people getting v

Re: [tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread Sally Walters
I hope not! I have taught one fully online course as part of my regular teaching load - it took far more time than a traditional course. You might get rich before having total mental collapse, not to mention debilitating RSI from mousing and keyboarding. Online education is extremely time-consu

[tips] I was not aware that

2009-08-17 Thread michael sylvester
Israel had no official State religion. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)

Re: [tips] Questions to ask when critiquing journal articles

2009-08-17 Thread roig-reardon
Hi Michele and others who may also be interested, I shared the following paper with Mark, http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/James%20statistics.doc . It is based on a project that a student did a couple of years ago that I think it is applicable for some of the issues that you raise. I hope

Re: [tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Is the basic problem with the way that donations (corporate or private) are normally handled? That is, someone gets to say where (all of) the money will go. I emphasize "all of" because is it not the case that a considerable portion of the money is coming from the public purse as a tax ded

Re: [tips] quick question

2009-08-17 Thread taylor
"Apply for" is a designation I have never heard before. I just "declared" my major (well over 30 years ago) as do my students these days. Please explain. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay

[tips] Scantron woes.

2009-08-17 Thread michael sylvester
Scantron machine scoring is usually reliable most of the time,but there are times when it can be a pain.On one occasion the macine kept on scoring a few items incorrect when they were obviously correct.I have had to xerox scantron answers because some students would change answers when they were

RE:[tips] quick question

2009-08-17 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
Carol Not exactly sure what you mean by "application" (it implies that someone evaluates the applicant and the applicant can be turned down). In our program students cannot declare psych as a major until they have passed a psych class and research methods. Marie http://www.dickinson.edu/departm

[tips] quick question

2009-08-17 Thread DeVolder Carol L
Dear Tipsters, How many of your departments require their students to apply for a psychology major (undergraduate). Would you mind sharing your application process? Thanks Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa

[tips] Questions to ask when critiquing journal articles

2009-08-17 Thread gaddy001
Hi Everyone, This message is meant to piggy-back on the message Marc Center posted about articles that might cover different analysis techniques. I am also very interested in this. I currently teach both an online introductory and intermediate statistics class, and in both classes, I involve s

[tips] Sources...

2009-08-17 Thread Marc Carter
Hi, All -- I'm wondering if anyone knows of a source of research articles organized by analysis. I'd like to keep my methods/stats kids reading research in lab, but would like it if the research used the analyses we're currently studying in lecture. I'm just wondering if someone has taken the

Re: [tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
To get around that problem, the individual can hire teaching assistants to manage subsets of the courses. He¹s the Œinstructor¹ but he is actually a corporation that provides instructors unbeknownst to the hiring universities. Eventually it will be acknowledged as such and the instructor will be li

Re: [tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread Christopher D. Green
tay...@sandiego.edu wrote: > This is what I envision: a few enterprising people getting very rich teaching > maybe 50 or 100 online courses a semester--same course offered through many > colleges nationwide--and maybe sponsored by not just pharma companies, but > any company--blog sites, twitter

Re: [tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread Beth Benoit
I can't imagine that an online course would last long if it were taught by someone who has 50-100 online courses to teach. There would be no rehiring, since there aren't enough hours in the day for one person to actually run that many. And the message would quickly go out that that person isn't d

Re: [tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread taylor
I was just about to forward to my dept a psychteach post from today that "advertizes" someone's services as a distance learning professor--he is looking for more courses to teach. This is what I envision: a few enterprising people getting very rich teaching maybe 50 or 100 online courses a sem

[tips] News: Cash for Courses - Inside Higher Ed

2009-08-17 Thread Christopher D. Green
I can see it now: "Welcome to Psy327 - Psychopharmacology, brought to you by Eli Lilly, makers of Prozac. When you're feeling down, ask your doctor about Prozac. And now on to the course..." http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/17/ccsf Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psycho