Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Academic conundrums

Tonight my main post elsewhere is Belshaw’s World – Barratt’s story: can the academic present measure up to its past?. I have a part completed post on MOOC, all these things link, that I will bring up tomorrow.

In reading books such as that of Paul Barratt Snr, I react along several dimensions: one is history, a second my response to current circumstances, Seriously, how can a teaching academic even maintain currency when they don't have time to research and reflect? 

2 comments:

Evan said...

They can't. But they can increase their score by publishing lots of quicky publication on the latest controversy to get citations.

Jim Belshaw said...

Tart, but I fear that there is a fair bit of truth in that comment, Evan.