The International Council for Open Research and Education (ICORE) will Discuss Connecting Open Research and Education with UNESCO and the European Commission at Online Educa Berlin 2013.
On 5 December 2013, ICORE will lead a discussion at the Online Educa Berlin 2013 conference concerning innovation connecting the fields of open research and open education. More...
Facebook, professors, and students
It’s a conversation that begins with propriety and manners, moves into legalese and institutional policy, and ends up with moralizing. What should or shouldn’t professors (and other college instructors) say about their students on Facebook (or other social media)? I am less interested in the answers to that question than I am in the ways that our attempts to answer reveal something about what faculty understand the rhetorical space of social media to be. For some reason I’ve seen this conversation in a variety of places of late, including the writing program administrators listserv. There are really three basic positions:
- abstinence: faculty shouldn’t remark about their students
- positive-only: faculty should only say nice things about their students
- in private: faculty who complain should severely limit access to those posts
That last position is really conciliatory (no one really thinks there is such a thing as “private” on facebook) but it recognizes the fourth, unrecommended position: to just fire away on facebook. More...