Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education | News
Article note: 1. Identify a positive correlate
2. Decide it's a silver bullet and invest heavily in it (either because you believe it or because doing so advances your career interests)
3. Discover it's far less effective than promised
It's the ciiirrrrrcle of hype.
This one is especially gross because it justifies tangible surveillance and pushes responsibility for student well-being onto instructors. And now that it's largely discredited, the administrative class is going to notice and justify a tsunami of cloying faux-personal spam as "nudges."
"Nudging" has been embraced as an elegant, low-cost way to fix thorny problems. New studies cast doubt on how widely applicable it really is.
