There is an interesting article in the NY Times about M.I.T.'s decision to have students blog on the college website. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/education/02blogs.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
A number of schools have started doing this but a lot of schools have not because the admins of these schools cannot controls what is written in the blogs. Places like M.I.T. might be special in terms of the type and seriousness of the students that go there and the use of student blogs may be a "marketing" tool to attract like-minded/attituded students. I wonder how widespread this practice will become and whether some schools will continue to give students complete freedom in writing their blogs while some schools will edit and censor blogs if not having proffesional writers write the blogs (afterall, this *is* a marketing took, why not use professionals?). I wonder what might happen if some of the students blogs start to focus on particular professors in either a positive or negative way (as they do on ratemyprofessor.com). Would restrictions be put in place (e.g., preventing blogs from saying "this guy may be the smartest guy on the planet in this field but he couldn't teach to save his own life" or "it is generally recognized that this professor has the best sexual techniques outside of class")? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
