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
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.
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.
Efficient Evaluation of Student Work
Ask any teacher – at any level of education – about their job and “time stress” and its variants will be a number one complaint.
From the Majoring in the 21st Century Blog (Not 95) Theses on General Education, etc. General Education reform has a long history in higher education
(Not 95) Theses on General Education Reform, etc.
General Education reform has a long history in higher education of being a no-win zone. Correct that: in any given GenEd campaign there is often
