Until then, the main effect of the Internet on undergraduates will be to create a generation of students that demands hands-on, active learning. That prediction is music to the ears of Rowlett, who concedes his push onto the Internet was less about notoriety and more to get his students more involved in coursework. So he created his course's own Internet radio station. We're all worried about that. His response has been to put students' poetry and research onto the radio station for the world to listen to.
Students get appreciative e-mail from all parts of the globe.
That makes them proud and helps them retain the information, he says. It's also his hedge against a future when students will have more choices about who teaches them. If we're going to compete with superstars, we're going to have to engage students on this level. This is our alternative to being beat up by the big guys with the big bucks. It is not a private communication.