A simple step colleges and universities could take to increase efficiency would be to stop wasting time in meetings. In fifteen years at my current
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.
MOOCs are so 2012 but IS There Gold in Them Hills?
The first two chapters in the MOOC story have been written: heroic arrival and unbounded enthusiasm followed by disappointment and backlash. I argued in Fall
An Alternative Voice in Higher Education Conversation
In its own words, the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE) “is a NEW GRASSROOTS NATIONAL CAMPAIGN to support quality higher education.” It was
Experimenting with Price Cuts in Higher Education
I’ve long been an advocate of cutting tuition and getting away from the wrong-headed “luxury-price signals quality product” logic so common in lower and middle
Another "What We Know about Teaching and Learning" Sampler
Kathleen McKinney is a sociologist who focuses on the “scholarship of teaching and learning” in sociology. These lists are not earth-shattering or paradigm-busting (some are
PDFs are not Accessible! Oh No! Convert Everything!
Alarm bells went off recently at my institution when some colleagues reported that they’d heard that “PDFs are not accessible” and that all of our
Innoeduvation 