Tag Archives: Cass-Sunstein

Permissions and Openness

Posted on December 30, 2008 by

I’ve been reading Opening Up Education. So far, I’m impressed. It’s hard to get all the articles in a collection like this to be consistent, coherent, and equally interesting, but the editors seem to have managed to do just that.  … Continue reading →

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The Intractable Problem of Informational Cascades

Posted on December 9, 2004 by

Stephen Downes’ new column on e-Learn does a great job of showing that solving the informational cascade problem is more challenging than I had presented it to be in my own article on the topic. In fact, his own analysis … Continue reading →

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Book Recommendation: Why Societies Need Dissent

Posted on August 28, 2004 by

If you liked my article on informational cascades then you will probably want to read Cass Sunstein’s Why Societies Need Dissent. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, writes in detail about the impact of informational cascades on … Continue reading →

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