Recent experience of following (and contributing to) Twitter stream at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association inspired a number of ideas (not all
Sociology of Information Nuggets
Elections and a three course semester have crowded out blogging over last few months. And so, the blogger’s cop out of pointers to some recent
Meanwhile, On Our Other Flank…
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
Innoeduvation 