Navigating the world by trial, error and dead reckoning
This is not a post, but rather an essay, longer than my normal posts. It concerns the Dragon Trainer project, that I already mentioned in this blog: together with my colleagues at University of Alicante and European Center for Living Technology I am researching a software for early-stage diagnose of emergent social dynamics in online […]
I wrote this post as an Edgeryders mission on learning. The idea is to do a reality check on education: which are our most important skills? And where do we learn them? My job in Egderyders is to manage it, not play missions, but this one was so intriguing I could not resist. If you […]
Policy wonks everywhere insist on hard, quantitative evaluation as an accountability device. The European Commission is spearheading the effort to drive the adoption of quantitative evaluation in traditionally “soft” areas, like social cohesion or social innovation. The message is quite simple: these are tough times for public budgets. You want something funded, you’d better make […]