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this. exactly. meanwhile universities are decreasing pay through austerity budgets and firing adjuncts.
if professors put all our digital labor onto an institutional LMS this semester we need to realize that is an action that will have anti-labor consequences in the near future. https://twitter.com/brandybeephd/status/1276211560466264066
if professors put all our digital labor onto an institutional LMS this semester we need to realize that is an action that will have anti-labor consequences in the near future. https://twitter.com/brandybeephd/status/1276211560466264066
HYPOTHETICALLY if you’re a professor who doesn’t have their own server & site I suggest http://gandi.net to register yr domain and http://digitalocean.com to set up your virtual server.
You will be glad you did and your colleagues will be too. Hypothetically, of course.
You will be glad you did and your colleagues will be too. Hypothetically, of course.
I rarely give advice online but this is important. It doesn’t matter if you say “my course couldn’t be run simply from the materials left on the LMS.” Of course it couldn’t. We all know that. We also know that university administrators will TRY IT. All tuition, no labor costs
As a sysadmin I can tell you that once uploaded you can never have full control of deletion of your data. As a labor historian I can tell you universities will use the pandemic cynically, to remove more tenure lines & (hard to believe it’s possible) worsen the future for adjuncts
Make an intentional decision about the role you will play in shaping the future labor market of our profession, not an unwitting one.
If you are not being paid to effectively do a whole new job, think about that. It’s not just going to hurt us once and then be a non issue.
If you are not being paid to effectively do a whole new job, think about that. It’s not just going to hurt us once and then be a non issue.
We are being forced to create new systems in a crisis. Put as much thought into systems as content. Take as much control of the infrastructure you use to “deliver content” as you would for the content itself.
If you think the above is far fetched I would refer you to how lots of universities are reopening their campuses in ways contravened by medical reality & common sense, in a pandemic, to save the bottom line. When you’re ready to risk lives everything else is also on the table.
If there’s interest in guidance for these issues, I’ll try to put together a session on it. We have to support each other thru this. It is an existential threat to higher ed, which has already brought to its knees by austerity & adjunct overreliance in non-grant-supported fields
