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Rewards-for-mentoring seems kind-of like the academic model, or at least what the academic model at its best is trying to be. I'd agree that it has its good po
by dasmoth 14y ago
Rewards-for-mentoring seems kind-of like the academic model, or at least what the academic model at its best is trying to be. I'd agree that it has its good points if implemented well, but isn't the worry that it'll push ill-suited people into the mentoring roles because it's the only way to get ahead?
There's also the age-old question of how you assess, or even define, quality of mentorship.
- michaelochurch 14y agoAcademia actually shot itself in the foot when most of its luminaries decided that teaching was commodity grunt work, with research being the real stuff that determined a person's career. Research is important, but if you don't go out and teach people how to use what you discovered, they'll write it off as irrelevant, abstract wankery. This led (among other things) to society's reduced investment in academia/R&D, and MOOCs are throwing their "teaching is just a commodity" ideology right back in their collective face.