Ask any teacher – at any level of education – about their job and “time stress” and its variants will be a number one complaint.
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.
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
Part of the Gender Gap in Majors May Lie in Intro Courses (Sort Of)
The following describes an interesting morphing of memes on the web and something that might be especially relevant to me and my colleagues at Mills
First Food Courts, Next Academic Content Franchises
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
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
