New-Media Scholars' Place in "The Pool" Could Lead to Tenure

Autor/in	Foster, Andrea L.
Titel	New-Media Scholars' Place in "The Pool" Could Lead to Tenure
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 38, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Tenure; Faculty Promotion; Collaborative Writing; Web Sites; Journal Articles; Internet; Peer Evaluation; Scholarship; Technology Uses in Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Web-Design; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Scholarships; Stipendium; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen
Abstract	Re:Poste, a Web application that encourages academics to pick apart online articles from the mass media, is only in its infancy. The program has already generated buzz on a social-networking Web site called the Pool. Re:Poste is one of 600 creative works--games, art, and more--by new-media students and faculty members, most of them on the Orono campus, described in the Pool, which also contains about 2,000 reviews of those works. Starting in June, the Pool will have a much wider reach, as people in general will be invited to add material to the site, rate others' projects, build on their ideas, and find collaborators for their own projects. The Pool, as yet little known, could provide a new avenue for new-media scholars to do their jobs. Eventually it could play a role in their tenure and promotion as well. The numbers and influence of such scholars in academe are growing, and they are looking for new ways for their institutions to evaluate them. Books and journal articles alone are a flawed measure of their productivity, new-media professors say, because many of their accomplishments exist only as Web sites, interactive games, or multimedia presentations. The Pool, they suggest, can be one measure for judging their work. Still, many in academe are wary of using Web sites to measure scholars' performance. People often falsify their identities on the Web, posing as someone else in order to promote themselves or undercut competitors. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10