The Polish entrepreneur behind the brand, Michal Borkowski, is no stranger to the ed tech arena, having devised a prototype student-led Q&A website three years earlier, while still at university.
The students' initiative in devising a doctoral student statement suggests that a transfer took place from the course context to the students' real institutional contexts.
An interim committee of nine students, two administrators and two faculty members has been appointed by Ms. Kenny to devise a new student government, which Mr. Meyer said would be presented to Stony Brook's student body for a vote next year.
But the administration devised a compromise, allowing students to live in single-sex dormitories and pursue women's studies in the newly named Douglass Residential College, which is more of a physical campus than an academic institution.
As in Britain, the American states pledged themselves to a "standards-programme", in which each state devised a system of student-testing, for different age-groups, to measure schools' progress.
Now, a parody Web site devised by a student at M.I.T.'s Media Laboratory sends up the offbeat research and famously inflated jargon of that program.
Devised by a student, Carrie Brewster, as her senior project in art, the show contains two lithographs and 14 etchings, all in black and white and all modest in size - up to about 20 inches - and all self-portraits.
A student has devised a far less costly, yet still untested, alternative.
With machine learning techniques, however, I have devised a model in which a student's response could be used as a basis for generating a problem that addresses her particular strengths and weaknesses.
Mr. Plotnik and the students devised a number of experiments on elephant behavior.
