This article on the inordinate growth of higher ed administration was getting a lot of Twitter action yesterday though it’s from February. We wrote about
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.
The Conversation about Free College Continues
This NPR piece does a pretty good job of getting on the table the tangle of issues that surrounds the cost of education question. If
Hampshire Dumps SAT for Real
I am not on the “standardized tests are worthless” bandwagon, but you’ll get no argument from me if you claim they are a big part
FAFSA Dreams
Mention “FAFSA” to people in certain circles and you’ll get an earful coming back at you. FAFSA stands for Free Application for Federal Student Aid;
Why Take a Detour…
…on the road from youth to career? Another story about “alternatives” to college. Those of us who toil in the fields of conventional academe don’t
Will $3 Coffee Kill $50,000 Tuitions?
An item in yesterday’s newspaper could have real long term significance for institutions like the one at which I work. The story was about Starbucks
Innoeduvation 