My Duolingo learning app can reshape education 19 May 2014 by Aviva Rutkin Luis von Ahn, creator of a popular language-learning app, says tracking how people
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.
There’s More to Life than "Critical" Thinking?
I’ve often disagreed with Michael Roth’s take on liberal education, but I think he’s hit a nail on the head here. He lumps “critical thinking”
Research on Effectiveness (sic) of Lecturing
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
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
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