About half of those who get bachelor’s degrees start out at community or junior colleges. At some four year colleges a significant portion of their
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.
But What Would We Do Without a Strategic Plan?
Interview in NYT with the author of the book I keep telling everyone to read. Continue reading at NYT.com See Also Scott Jaschik. “Majoring in
Higher Education’s Problem: Seven Red Lines, All Perpendicular, Some Green, Some Transparent
This video is a spot-on dramatization of many, many meetings I’ve participated in during my time in higher education. Despite (or perhaps because) being peopled
This is Your Brain on Pen and Paper
From Chronicle.com Continue Reading at Chronicle.com
Just Say No to the Fetish of Interdisciplinarity?
Jerry Jacobs, a Penn professor, is the kind of smart guy who I find worth listening to even when my first impression of what he
Switch Fonts, Save Ink (and dollars)
In the news over the last few days, reports about a kid whose science fair project was to compute how much the government could save
