One way to pop oneself out of one’s institutional bubble is to listen in on conversations among the folks whose attention (and dollars) we are
Category: aa sociology of information
What the Survey Did Not Ask
I recently spent a half an hour filling out yet another higher education survey instrument. Lots to say about methodological issues, but also about content.
The Socially Competent Node
Consider the following deviant characters: loose cannons, blabbermouths, gossipers, and yentas, stool pigeons and canaries, tattlers and squealers, garblers, the nosy, the deaf to hints,
Religion and Learning to be a Node
A short excerpt from zeroth draft of chapter “Learning to be a node” The chapter is about how social networks depend on competent nodes and
Turning Around an Institution in Challenging Times
Alas, it’s a pleasant surprise when a journalist who understands enough about higher education to “get a story” is given enough space to tell it.
Technology and Learning around the Country
Although examples of the technology tail wagging the pedagogical dog are a dime a dozen, there are places that seem to be doing a noteworthy
Innoeduvation 