video teaching

["Rauber, Joel Phys" <RAUBERJ@mg.sdstate.edu>]

Leigh wrote:

> It really is sad, folks. As the administrators have become more like
> management, academe has become more like corporate culture, and faculty
> have become professionalized. It hasn't yet happened everywhere, but it
> sure has happened here at Simon Fraser. I hope that some of you realize
> what has been lost, so that some day you may try to reclaim it.

I see this more and more, adminstration using business metaphors for 
education, my opinion is that education is the most unlike business activity 
there is. It is an intrinsically human and inefficient process.  And a most 
important process.

I would say from my experience here at SDSU that the faculty isn't being 
professionalized.  It is more accurately being laborized. That is faculty 
are viewed simply as labor in a management/labor context (the business 
metaphor). I can think of nothing better to make your faculty demoralized 
than doing things like this. Which will really "inspire" them to teaching 
educational excellence.  (all sarcasm intended).

Joel