Consider the following deviant characters: loose cannons, blabbermouths, gossipers, and yentas, stool pigeons and canaries, tattlers and squealers, garblers, the nosy, the deaf to hints,
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.
Of Restaurant Chains and Higher Education
One need not be a sophisticated economist to see that distribution of American family income makes the high tuition/high discount business model of non-elite, non-public
Religion and Learning to be a Node
A short excerpt from zeroth draft of chapter “Learning to be a node” The chapter is about how social networks depend on competent nodes and
Problem Based Science Education at UMass
Click on Text to Read More See Also Mazur Group. “Research on Science Education“ MIT. “Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching at MIT“ MIT Teaching
Turning Around an Institution in Challenging Times
Alas, it’s a pleasant surprise when a journalist who understands enough about higher education to “get a story” is given enough space to tell it.
Well, This Might Provoke Some Conversations…
From CoHE… Accounting for Success: Brenau U., a women’s college in Georgia, is running million-dollar surpluses. Here’s how https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13897743/Brenau.pdf <!–
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