While I work on more extended analysis of the WikiLeaks situation (among other things the obvious connection to my work on how geometries of information
Work Slowdown in Soc of Info
Readers, Have been swamped with teaching and administrative work of late, and trying to spend two days a week at the Center for Advanced Study
Peer to Peer Education: Can Students Teach One Another?
One of society’s major “information institutions” is, of course, the university (and colleges, too). In these institutions information is generated, classified, evaluated, sanctioned, organized, and
Closing the Loop in Practice: Does Assessment Get Assessment?
At a liberal arts college with which I am familiar, the administration recently distributed “syllabus guidelines” with 34 items for inclusion on course syllabi. Faculty
Do Organizations that ‘Fess Up Do Better?
Geoffrey W. McCarthy, a retired chief medical officer for the V.A., wrote, in a letter to the NYT on 9 August in response to an
Information and Educational Assessment I
In a letter to the NYT about an article on radiation overdoses, George Lantos writes: My stroke neurologists and I have decided that if treatment
