Weblogs: learning in public

Jill Walker

Studying is a complicated game. Some of the rules are explicit, others you figure out as you go, but everyone knows that it is not real life. Nobody except your professor will read the papers you write. Once you graduate, only your grades – your winnings – will count. This is one of the challenges of teaching: only exceptional students will do work for the joy of learning and not simply because it is required.
What happens then if we make the game more real? What if we connect the day to day work of studying to the world outside of the university?

No hi ha dubte que estudiar és complicat. Estudiar i treballar és encara més complicat. I la tasca d’un professor, que no n’és de complicada?