Lots of online commentary and reposting of OpEd (“The Trouble with Online Education“) by M Edmundson of UVA in last week’s New York Times. For
The Path from "Running a University Like a Business" Leads Where?
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
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
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