Jeff MacKie-Mason is our Dean of Academic Affairs at the UM School of Information and my boss. He is a cool dean and I really like his style – he has agenda which he does move forward firmly but take a really easygoing approach to things and always takes input along the way.
Recently we adopted a policy about requiring Learning Objectives in all syllabuses starting Winter 2009 – and in Dean 2.0 fashion – Jeff used his blog to host an open discussion about the policy.
Here is Jeff’s original blog post on the topic.
I tried and tried to resist commenting – but a lazy Saturday morning, a free keyboard, a fresh and warm cup of coffee, and the fact that it is really too cold outside to do anything but write blog posts – and I was hooked.
I reproduce my comments below (which will likely get me in trouble – but what the heck – Jeff asked…)