A paper (pdf below) published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reports a meta-analysis of some 250 studies of effectiveness of lecturing
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.
New Browser Tool Lets You Copy Text from Images
Project Naptha is a new plug-in for the Chrome browser that lets you do text recognition (OCR) of online images (e.g., photos of documents) and
Higher Ed: The Times, They Are A-Changin’
Increasing segmentation of potential student market, lots of new entrants (education providers), new demand for “just in time” learning, aggregators as brokers between providers and
European Educators Discuss Changes in Higher Ed
Some familiar themes, some new takes on them, at recent meeting of European University Association …post-Bologna Process…new teaching tools…changes student body…alter university landscape…changes in technology and
Eye on the Prize: Lowering Costs
From NPR “A small number of universities are starting to go against the grain, reducing amenities and frills in favor of keeping the costs relatively
Higher Education Organizations Go to Bat for Unpaid Internships
Several higher education organizations are lobbying for colleges and universities to be the arbiter of what makes for a valid unpaid internship experience. In other
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