It’s about time. When was the last time your boss asked you to lock yourself away from all resources and your colleagues, and solve a problem in 3 hours? Ditto when you are on your own and something goes wrong. Do you go to a quiet room and sit alone or grab the nearest connection device and jump on the internet?
Memory has its place, but whether we like it or not, today that place is in our handheld, not our heads…
“unless an instructor officially informs the Registrar by the end of the first week of the term” of the intention to end a course with a formal, seated exam, “the assumption shall be that the instructor will not be giving a three-hour final examination” and no slot will be reserved for it in the schedule. Previously, the faculty members’ handbook specified that courses were assumed to end with examinations unless instructors petitioned for an exemption
via Are final examinations on the way out at Harvard? | Harvard Magazine Jul-Aug 2010.
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Barbara K Iverson 