UEN and Pioneer are really interesting programs. I use the word ‘interesting’ because it is loosely connected to my field and only helpful for a very narrow genre of classes. If I were in the sciences or math departments, it would be an incredible tool with access to fantastic information. As it stands, there is little to know art content that is not geared towards elementary students. This doesn’t make it totally unhelpful, but almost so. Even searching in Pioneer, they don’t have credible research and links to current theatre journals.
My favorite aspect to the program is the Ebscohost access. Even though Ebsco itself is not full or art references, it does have many other articles and journals that are worthwhile in using in coursework as well as teaching my students how to use peer-reviewed references.
On one hand, it is amazing that teachers can build course sites via UEN, but on the other hand, they are hard to manipulate and rather picky. It takes doing steps frequently in triplicate to post images/video and content. If the format were cleaner, if there were more options and even an aspect to program basics in html or css, it would be a stronger system.
Over-all I won’t be using it much in my classroom. But I am grateful it exists and I know it will continue to become more than what it is today. I can’t wait to keep on top of what is out there.
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