The Internet, Wireless Campuses, and the Professoriate

With the proliferation of laptops and wireless devices in classrooms, coupled with wireless classrooms (not to mention entire campuses), faculty and their teaching/teaching methods are open to observation, dissemination, and scrutiny at the push of a few buttons.  This has pushed professors’ teaching even further into the public eye, inviting new issues of privacy, intellectual property, and opinions far and wide.  Check out this recent story about Patricia Adler, a Professor of Sociology who, after 20 years of doing a lecture on prostitution, suddenly was subjected to this new found form of scrutiny:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/01/internet_commenters_and_academia_how_the_internet_review_board_gets_professors.html