I just responded to an unsolicited email from a consultant working for Pearson publishing – perhaps you received one too. The sender was requesting my
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.
Do Britain’s "Studio Schools" Have Ideas for American Higher Education?
We in the liberal arts college world talk a good game about “hands on” and “practical experience” and “learning outside the classroom,” but 99% of
The Heavy Lifting in Higher Education
A great profile of community college instructor doing the hard work of making a difference in students’ lives. From the New York Times 21 December
More in the "Is Elite Higher Education Worth It?" Conversation
from the Washington Post’s Wonkblog Private colleges are a waste of money for white, middle class kids “Many parents whose kids have their eye on
Will Traditional Higher Ed Be Disrupted by Pragmatic Tech Training?
I think the author overstates the prevalence and significance of the phenomenon he points to (the rise of ALPs – accelerated learning programs), but he’s
Journalism as ‘Gateway Degree’
FROM the PBS MediaShift Blog This essay is about journalism education but its conceptualization of journalism education as a gateway degree along with the how
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