In this post on Tomorrow’s Professor, Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas at Austin, asks “Flipped Classrooms— Old or New?” She describes the technique, notes its roots in
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.
Two Articles on Higher Ed from The Atlantic
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(One of) The Most Interesting College(s) in America
What if Mills were organized into “five undergraduate schools… : School of Fine Arts, School of Natural Science, School of Social Institutions, School of Education
(STOP) Wasting Time in Meetings
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
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
