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
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.
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
FBOW, A List Colleges Probably Want to Be Ranked Highly On
PayScale.com’s Return on Investment listings. The methodology is questionable. The data insufficient and unsystematic. But at least some audiences probably paying attention. It’d be unethical,
Napolitano Calls Online Courses Just "a tool for the toolbox"
First smart remarks about online higher education that I’ve heard in a while. Perhaps staring down terrorists and such for a few years gives a
NPR Airs "Paying for College" Series
NPR aired a piece by Eric Westervelt on 25 March titled “Decoding College Financial Aid” (8:18) in their “Paying for College” series. Many high school
Single Sex Education, Science, and Belief
One’s scientific “spidey sense” should tingle when a report on research talks about “opponents of” and “proponents of,” but just the same, with grains and
Innoeduvation 