The most serious flaw in assessment as now practiced is the premise that it is something that teachers are not interested in, do not want
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.
Information Control and Politics: Not Just "Over There"
Cell Reception Cut In San Francisco To Hinder Protest by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 13, 2011 Transit officials blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations
Too Bad Higher Education "Experts" and Vendors aren’t Graded
I was inspired by a TeachSoc post from Kathe Lowney today to have a look at two articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education on computer
This is your Background Check on Steroids
An article, “Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle,” by Jennifer Preston in yesterday’s NYT is obvious fodder for the sociology of information. It’s
Anonymity and the Demise of the Ephemeral
The New York Times email update had the right headline “Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone” but made a common mistake in the
animal diminutives
At the risk of straying too far off the sociology of information trail, may I report a conversation from this morning’s ride down to CASBS
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