My conservative prediction is that within five years we will see examples of not-for-profit private colleges turning into franchises for textbook publishers such as Pearson
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.
The "Competency" Bandwagon: Check Out the Full Itinerary
One of this decade’s fads in higher education is “competency-” or “proficiency-based” education. The discourse around it is littered with phrases and concepts that are
Who Owns What When Faculty Create Digital Teaching Materials
The rise (and fall?) of MOOCs over the last two years has intensified interest in who owns digital teaching materials. If I develop digital tools
Is this Bandwagon a Handbasket?
One of the most reliable reflex actions in higher education is the urge to re-make general education every decade or so. The effort described in
Smart Institutional Practices Around Interdisciplinary Hiring
Interesting misleading headline in this article from COHE. Gist of the story is folks at North Carolina State University recognized that cross-disciplinary hiring challenges organizational
Decreasing Teaching (Course) Load at Swarthmore College
Note: This makes for an interesting pairing with the previous post. It does not take too flexible a mind to think of expanding admin ranks
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