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Faculty & Technology: Rewarding TET - David Starrett, Campus-Technology

It is the end of November, and Joe Faculty has just filed his Record of Service for tenure at Middle USA State University. Joe is pretty confident he will be tenured; after all, Middle USA State is a teaching-oriented campus, and Joe has done a lot to enhance his teaching with innovative techniques. He has a lot of service to his credit and a comfortable amount of scholarship and professional development in the record. Now it is early May the following semester, and Joe’s chair calls him into the office. He is sympathetic, but he informs Joe that his application for tenure has been denied. While Joe had a substantial record, he explains, much of his teaching innovation was via technology use: PowerPoint to enhance lectures, course Web sites to enhance classroom activity and provide supplemental information, innovative assignments designed to take advantage of the vast amount of information instantly accessible on the Internet. Joe even taught a class completely online. His service and scholarship involved technology components, as well. And he published a couple of papers on innovations in technology-enabled teaching (TET).

  posted by Ray at 10/17/2004 10:20:00 AM permanent item link   

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