[Air-l] is this ethical?

[Mary-Helen Ward]

Really? I would say that it's a darned good example of teaching. I  
work in a student service area, and believe me it's kilometres away  
from teaching.

Like Hughie I resist the ideas of students as consumers in the  
classroom. Sure they are 'serviced' by the university, and its  
processes and procedures should treat them as consumers. The online  
learning system, the library, their access to their results or the  
internet are ways that the university supports them in their  
education. Their education is something they work out for themselves  
in conjunction with the teaching staff.

M-H

On 17/03/2007, at 1:26 AM, James Whyte wrote:

> I would say that you have given a darned good example of you  
> "serving" your students (customers)
>
>   James
>
> Hugemusic <hmusic at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>   Whenever I've taught online journalism, or other forms of  
> specifically
> online communication, I make my students blog - specifically to  
> make them
> aware of the public nature of what is published on the web. I set  
> up a blog
> for them in the class name using a tool like blogger and ask them  
> to post
> ... using an alias, or student number, or whatever name THEY choose  
> on any
> topic they like. Then I make them search for their blog posts, then  
> I make
> them contact a friend and ask them whether they could find the blog  
> post by
> searching.
>