Gary King (Harvard) and Maya Sen (Rochester) apply solid political science analysis to the challenges facing contemporary higher education. They consider market threats, political threats,
King and Sen on Using Social Science to Improve Teaching
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Conference Tools for Twitter
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
Innoeduvation 