Top Liberal Arts Blogs
The web site University Reviews Online lists “The Top 100 Liberal Arts Blogs”. The chosen blogs are arranged under the following subjects: Arts, Economics, Education, English, History, Math, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Science, Sociology, and Theology. A blog entitled “Dangerously Irrelevant”, by Dr. Scott McLeod, an Education Professor at Iowa University, is described as “one of the most popular edublogs on the net”. It should be of interest not only to students and teachers of education, but to anyone involved in one way or another in education or instructional technology. For example, a recent post outlines “5 key trends for the future of education”: openness (open access for academic research and greater transparency in teaching); greater transparency of the knowledge creation process (i.e. openness about how articles, books, etc. are synthesized); mobile learning; alternative forms of assessment; and alternative classroom environments.
Another impressive education blog, Pedablogue, by Michael Arnzen, includes an interesting “Student Outcomes” section, with videos of former students discussing their current career status in relation to their past education: “‘Student Outcomes’ is a continuing series of interviews with my former students who are now experiencing ‘real life’ after college. Considering how much of our work is based on the assumption that ‘learning outcomes’ will be met, I thought it would be a good way to catch up with them and to see what sort of impact college has had on their lives in the long term”. Not a bad idea.
The list of English academics’ blogs is longer and more varied, encompassing bloggers such as confessed conservatives and alleged feminists. It also includes a self-proclaimed snob who begins one posting with the sentence “There are times when I'm confronted by my own snobbery” – in reference to having hesitantly applied for a non-academic summer job once. A number of these blogs appear to be anonymous, and a few are inappropriately personal.
The ranking of the above sites as “top” academic blogs was last done in 2005. Some may have drifted since then. Overall, not a bad listing though.
Posted by May Mikati on 31 October 2011, 8:39 PM
The web site University Reviews Online lists “The Top 100 Liberal Arts Blogs”. The chosen blogs are arranged under the following subjects: Arts, Economics, Education, English, History, Math, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Science, Sociology, and Theology. A blog entitled “Dangerously Irrelevant”, by Dr. Scott McLeod, an Education Professor at Iowa University, is described as “one of the most popular edublogs on the net”. It should be of interest not only to students and teachers of education, but to anyone involved in one way or another in education or instructional technology. For example, a recent post outlines “5 key trends for the future of education”: openness (open access for academic research and greater transparency in teaching); greater transparency of the knowledge creation process (i.e. openness about how articles, books, etc. are synthesized); mobile learning; alternative forms of assessment; and alternative classroom environments.
Another impressive education blog, Pedablogue, by Michael Arnzen, includes an interesting “Student Outcomes” section, with videos of former students discussing their current career status in relation to their past education: “‘Student Outcomes’ is a continuing series of interviews with my former students who are now experiencing ‘real life’ after college. Considering how much of our work is based on the assumption that ‘learning outcomes’ will be met, I thought it would be a good way to catch up with them and to see what sort of impact college has had on their lives in the long term”. Not a bad idea.
The list of English academics’ blogs is longer and more varied, encompassing bloggers such as confessed conservatives and alleged feminists. It also includes a self-proclaimed snob who begins one posting with the sentence “There are times when I'm confronted by my own snobbery” – in reference to having hesitantly applied for a non-academic summer job once. A number of these blogs appear to be anonymous, and a few are inappropriately personal.
The ranking of the above sites as “top” academic blogs was last done in 2005. Some may have drifted since then. Overall, not a bad listing though.
Posted by May Mikati on 31 October 2011, 8:39 PM
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