Abridgements of two from Insider Higher Education. Full articles here and here. 5 Mistakes of Rookie Deans July 24, 2015 By Eli Jones Welcome to
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
What the Crazies are Saying, Part 9
One of the biggest reasons for smart people to start participating in conversations about the future of higher education is because if we don’t then
Internships, Experiential Learning, and Learning to Think
Another entry in the general skills vs. job skills conversation occasioned by recent decision clarifying unpaid internship rules. IMHO point could be more strongly made:
College Affordability and the Size of the Market
This piece from, of all places, the Wall Street Journal, and by, of all people, Lamar Alexander, makes the case that college unaffordability is overstated. As
Innovation in Higher Education Redux
This from TechCrunch. There are a lot of smart minds buzzing around “innovation” in the “higher education space.” In what’s being called the post-MOOC era,
Two Years of College for "Free": A Trend?
Smart four year colleges will start planning now to be coordinating with this phenomenon. Oregon Will Become Second State to Offer Free Community CollegeLawmakers approve
Innoeduvation 