Student Guide Corner

As I sit here working on this blog entry, the view out my window looks like a scene from the movie Doctor Zhivago. Hope it is warm and sunny wherever you are today. ** I gave my first introductory accounting exam yesterday (before the snow storm). Send me an email at jhoyle@richmond.edu if you would like a copy. I am not a fan of test banks but I do think professors should exchange their tests just to get ideas for what might work. One of my favorite blog entries is from January 31, 2010: �How You Test Is How They Will Learn.� ** Anyone who has read this blog for long already knows that I am not a fanatical user of modern technology. I have never once used Power Point in a class. Never. I do not allow computers to be open during class (too much temptation to play games or text message). I am more interested in what students can do with their minds than I am in what they can do with a computer. However, I do make extensive use of email. I am sure that some ...

Not long ago, I friend of mine who teaches English here at the University of Richmond asked me �is it possible that we are all in the buggy whip business and we don�t even know it?� In other words, has education changed so quickly and so dramatically that many of us are going to get left behind?  (or, have already been left behind?) It is easy to dismiss that idea (because we want to dismiss that idea). Of course, the times are changing. Everyone can obviously see in the newspapers, television, and Internet that the world of education is evolving. But there will always be room in this world for the kind of college teaching that you and I do. The core of a college education has not really changed much since I was a freshman in 1966. Some version of that model will surely continue on forever. Surely it is sustainable? Surely? Or maybe not. A friend of mine here at Richmond sent me a link to two videos at www.epic2020.org. I only watched the first one (I�m in the middle of preparing t...