A blog post with some insightful comments about UVA situation (http://bit.ly/PD6WNv) notes that the folks who pressured the president to resign favor something they call
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
Know (and be smarter than) Your Enemy
This post is not specifically about assessment, but it relates to the larger conversation of which assessment is but one component : the future of
Scoops in Journalism and Everyday Life
Jay Rosen has a post today titled “Four Types of Scoops” that will surely make it into my sociology of information book. The four types
Tomorrow’s Social Science Today? By Techies?
If you generate the data, the analysts will come. And more and more of the technologies of everyday life generate data, lots of it. “Big
What If Administrator Pay Were Tied to Student Learning Outcomes
The recent negotiation in Chicago (“Performance Pay for College Faculty“) of a tie between student performance and college instructor pay brought this accolade from an administrator: it gets
Better Teaching Through a Financial Stake in the Outcome
In an Inside Higher Ed article this week (“Performance Pay for College Faculty“) K Basu and P Fain describe how the new contract signed between
Innoeduvation 