Minasuk/ May 22, 2015/ Uncategorized

College Students Are Not Customers | Slate | May 2015 If a university is a customer-service-oriented business—like, say, a restaurant—this means that the customer’s pleasurable experience (and thus continuing patronage) is the sole aim of the university. It does not matter, then, how much or how little the customer learns about a given area of study, because she is “always

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Minasuk/ June 19, 2014/ Uncategorized

You’ll Never Learn!: Students Can’t Resist Multitasking | Slate | May 2013 Students’ “on-task behavior” started declining around the two-minute mark as they began responding to arriving texts or checking their Facebook feeds. By the time the 15 minutes were up, they had spent only about 65 percent of the observation period actually doing their schoolwork.