[lg policy] The e-reader over your shoulder

[Baron, Dennis E]

There's a new post on the Web of Language: The e-reader over your shoulder

A publisher of digital textbooks has announced<http://bit.ly/Q1MOJh> a utility that will tell instructors whether their students are actually doing the assigned reading. Billed as a way to spot low-performers and turn them around before it’s too late, CourseSmart Analytics measures which pages of their etexts students have read and exactly how long that took. Then the student e-monitor sends a report card to the teacher. Another exciting example of interactive, digital education? Or a new way to snoop on students outside the classroom?

read the full post on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/weblan


Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

office: 217-305-0067
fax: 217-333-4321

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