Our excellent course rep. Daryl, has asked for for issues for the next departmental board meeting. I have raised the issue of lack of electronic submission; lack of electronic copies of module guides; and lack of electronic copies of lecture notes on a system called Blackboard which is used by other departments at the DMU.
What I said was '...Why not have electronic submission of essays etc and lecture notes to be placed on Blackboard. The reason why I am a bit of an expert?? on this is that my son is taking the MSc in energy and sustainable building design at the DMU and all his lecture notes, modules guides etc are all on Blackboard. Yet what do we have? Paper hand outs, no lecture notes and paper submission. In short, the environmental impact of the way that the MA photography course is run is very poor.
There is no real argument against this and, as Bev said last year, the DMU should be setting an example and trying to reduce their environmental impact as much as possible. Perhaps the killer argument is compare what we do against the environmental policy of the DMU...'
Does this mean I am turning green? Perhaps, but I cannot see why our course cannot follow the same practices undertaken by other departments at the university, it will save costs for the students, currently we have to submit two ring bound copies of our essays and seminar papers. Equally, for students who were not at university one week, it gives them a chance to catch up with lectures they may have missed.
I doubt things will change in a hurry but it is something that does need to be addressed.
Well does this constitute a rant?
