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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.
Meeting as Wasted Time: Made, not Born
This has been a pet peeve of mine for a very long time. We academics completely miss the mark when we decry the number of
Departmental Collaboration Around Writing
A group of young sociology professors at Oakland University* (MI) got together and collaborated on a concerted effort to improve writing in their department in
Another Buzzword or The Holy Grail: Knowledge Transfer
The basic idea – generalizing from something learned in one context and applying it in another – seems sound, if a tad obvious. But is
