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
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.
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
Higher Ed Positions in the Bay Area
from Dean: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Chabot-Las Positas Community College District The Dean is a management position designated by the Board of Trustees of the
Open Education Resources I
THIS, from Dartmouth College Library Labs Open Educational Resources: New Initiatives for Creation and Discovery Discovery Tools, Open Educational Resources by Barbara DeFelice Open Educational Resources, or
The "Seven Sisters" Class of 1968
The New York Times is “celebrating” its digitization of its 1964 issues with the occasional article from “50 years ago this week.” This piece from
Real "Competencies" for the 21st Century
Music to my ears. Sarah Lawrence, long known for its innovative approach to liberal arts education (still using narrative evaluations – something we could adopt
Innoeduvation 