Craig Peterson

I find it interesting that many faculty members believe that anything they do in education can be justified as not needing copyright clearance because it is educational usage. If faculty just thought about textbooks, they could see that this was not the case. We must purchase textbooks and not just make copies of them. They have a copyright and are, for the most part, purely intended for educational usage. Would someone write a textbook if they would never receive payment because it was for educational usage? Obviously there are many things that have copyrights attached to them that still require… >>>

I liked the information about formative feedback and summative feedback. I am placed in an interesting position where my university wants us to use formative feedback but the only place where real feedback happens is in the grading process. We have development sessions on how to do formative feedback and it is all good, but it is integrated with the grade assignment. Based on these section that type of feedback should be summative. What is really being said in my past training applied to meaningful feedback and the points about formative were good, but seem to be misplaced. I always… >>>