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Going Virtual

2017; Suffolk University; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22140/pv.267

2573-1440

John A Nicolay,

Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy

Dr. Ian Gestrode, Professor of History at St. Elgin's College, and his colleagues face a day of reckoning when the College accepts a multi-million grant from a monolithic software/hardware corporation to convert the college to an entirely electronic based delivery system. Department Chairs "retire", recalcitrant faculty find themselves teaching in hallways and on the grounds as adjuncts willing to accomodate the new regime take over the curriculum. An upstart faculty member is suddenly elevated to a position of influence joned by a dismal former English instructor, now regarded by a few as the campus distance learning guru. As the "old guard" confronts the challenge of institutional dismemberment, they craft an ingenius plan to stave off technology to preserve the traditions of the academe.