The web and the university
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The web and the ESL/EFL profession
18. Will the Web undercut our profession as teachers? To what degree is improving the Web, i.e. the ability to learn English on the Web, making it harder or easier for ESL teachers to earn a decent living?
other linked quotes:
Computer trends ('01)
other sources:
Bibliography
19. What should our role as designers be in getting other teachers/students involved in using the web?
other sources:
Bibliography
20. How can we protect ourselves and our colleagues from the explosion in spam in their e-mail mailboxes, that may result from our putting their e-mail addresses on the web? Are we partly responsible for their grief if we don't protect them?
linked quotes:
(the original email scooper/spammer) is probably being paid to spam for the products andÝcompanies within the spam emails, and doing his own work locating of open mail relays and email address scooping. With open mail relays, lists of 30 million email addresses, and a cable modem, it only takes a handful of professional spammers (such as this one) to deposit 10 or more daily pieces of spam into the mailbox of practically every frequent user of the net.... Should authorities be serious about fighting spam, then setting up a more comprehensive spam "bait" system such as this (essentially a sting operation) would make the life of a fulltime spam artist a lot more risky than it currently is.
-DSL Reports, Spam and web-visible email addresses: Bait a spammer and see the results, PC Magazine, 2/17/02
other sources:
Internet Society's page on spamming
Open Access
21. Recently, the Soros Foundation has backed the Open-Access Initiative (the Budapest Declaration), an attempt by academics to make all academic work available to all, at the expense of academic journals which have profited from it to date. As web developers, how will we get caught up in this debate?
background:
Soros Foundation Network
Budapest Open Access Initiative
linked quotes:
"Plans to extend free access to scientific and academic research papers have received a boost with the announcement of a $3m grant from financier and philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute....Critics of commercial journals say their subscription charges hamper research at institutes and in countries where research budgets are tight. They say that researchers write and review papers for free, so the journals should not charge to read them...But journal publishers defend their charges as necessary to finance their operations. The new money for open alternatives comes as part of a new declaration called the Budapest Open Access Initiative, signed by dozens of institutions and hundreds of researchers."
-Ivan Noble, Boost for research paper access, BBC, Feb. 14, 2002
other sources:
Bibliography
Distance Learning
22. Opponents of distance learning and web-based learning fear not only the undercutting of faculty salary, but also the loss of academic ownership that goes with teaching and developing classes, if web and distance learning become more established. As web developers, are we not taking a stand in this debate by virtue of what we do?
sources:
Barriers to Distance Education: EModerators' annotated bibliography of studies rating factors against distance learning
Bibliography
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