Special report on Online Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education has release a special report on online education featuring two white papers on lecture capture plus 10 Faculty Perspectives on What Works in Lecture Capture.

Go to this link to download the white papers

The University Library has ordered a copy of the full report. Please call or e-mail us if you are interested in reading the report when it arrives.

Managing your online reputation

Faculty and anyone else who regularly publishes (or would like to some day): be mindful of your online reputation.

An article in Nature News, Best face forward, explains how not just to keep track of your online presence, but to take more control over it.

Most interesting is the mention of a private company that will do this for you:

Online Reputation Manager, headquartered near Rochester, New York, is a company that uses search-engine optimization strategies to repair the online image of clients who have been besieged with unfavourable press.

Here's a new sub-field within Public Relations I hadn't heard of before. Know any other similar companies? Please let us know in the comments.

4 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy

The Chronicle of Higher Education online has an article by Prof. James M. Lang that may interest faculty and DBA students:

4 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy.

This article contains practical advice for avoiding the usual boiler-plate statements Prof. Lang has read over the years as he has served on many search committees.

Any who experience difficulties accessing this article please contact the library for assistance.