Don’t be distracted by the lurid, even bizarre, events narrated at the start of the article. What it’s really about is the organizational distortion of
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.
A Modest Suggestion for GE Reform
From Majoring in the 21st Century blog… When, as is usually the case, nobody has actually put forward a coherent critique that exposes what’s wrong
Four Modest Suggestions for General Education Reform
Tell Them Why I Develop coherent and persuasive description of why we have a GE program and what it is supposed to achieve. Address it
Advising Parents of Soon-to-be-College-Students
One way to pop oneself out of one’s institutional bubble is to listen in on conversations among the folks whose attention (and dollars) we are
Joint Humanities & Computer Science Majors at Stanford
From the Chronicle of Higher Education (21 March 2014)
What the Survey Did Not Ask
I recently spent a half an hour filling out yet another higher education survey instrument. Lots to say about methodological issues, but also about content.
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