Category: aa sociology of information

The one thing you see over and over and over in the assessment literature is the “rubric.”  Never mind, for now, the history of the

Floyd Norris has a piece in the NYT under the headline “When Law Obscures The Facts.”  In it he describes a — fill in a

The Canon of College Majors Persists Amid Calls for Change The more academe changes, the more the list of majors stays the same, even though

Monica Davey’s article “Case Shows Limits of Sex Offender Alert Programs” in the NYT (2 Sept 2009)raises a number of interesting sociology of information issues.

Any time we create a committee we should stop and ask why.  The baseline for answering that question should be the world (or institution) without

I met recently, along with Andy, Alice, and Kiem, with two reps from the Blackboard company. They were here to tell us about a Blackboard