The latest swing of the MOOC headline pendulum is way over on the “complete bust” end of the evaluation spectrum but they represent a very
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.
Disrupting General Education
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) is holding another “institute” next summer on “General Education and Assessment.” All the usual caveats associated with
More Sources on Competency Based Education
Debbie Morrison at Online Learning Insights has a nice blog post “The Next Big Disruptor – Competency-based Learning” with good suggestions for further reading. Paul Fain at Inside Higher
The Conversation about Competency-Based Education I
One starting point for thinking about the thinking about “competency-based education” is the executive summary of a 2002 report from the “National Post-Secondary Educational Cooperative”
Do Faculty Matter? Effects of Faculty Participation in University Decisions
This paper models the effects of faculty participation in university decision making. Its findings suggest that by affecting academic quality, faculty participation provides a net
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