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His lectures are up on Vimeo, eg: https://vimeo.com/140890185 https://vimeo.com/140890185 From what I can see, he's a talented lecturer. He's articulate, genui
by wbillingsley 11y ago
His lectures are up on Vimeo, eg:
https://vimeo.com/140890185 https://vimeo.com/140890185
From what I can see, he's a talented lecturer. He's articulate, genuinely interested in his students' understanding, and has some uninhibited dramatic enthusiasm that keeps the audience engaged.
He's doing a start-up centred on teaching skills for lecturers/professors; I wonder if behind the scenes the issue is simply about that?
Not sure how this particular argument will play out (yikes, it's quite public now though) but he's a smart chap and should land on his feet.
- lloyd-christmas 11y agoFor a healthy dose of realism... regardless of the publicity, nobody will care next year. The administration can likely just ignore it if they are actually comfortable with the status quo. If they had already wanted to make a change, this is just a nice springboard for them.
- spaceflunky 11y agoI don't know much about this guy's story, but I do remember from my time as a UC Berkeley undergrad that being a popular lecturer with the students is a sure fire way to get yourself unpopular with the tenured staff. The brass professors at UC Berkeley seemed to be catty like that in all departments. They didn't like it when some young gun became more popular than them for teaching the same topics that they'd been teaching for a generation. Which makes sense, popular professor sell things and get rich, and they way they saw it, they weren't going to lose to some young upstart.