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.
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
Small, Private Colleges Woo Veterans With Scholarships
NPR piece by Gloria Hillard – November 18, 2013 Many veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are taking advantage of GI benefits to
Peter Brooks, Our Universities: How Bad? How Good? NYRB
In the March 24, 2011 issue of the New York Review of Books, literary scholar Peter Brooks reviewed four widely read books on higher education
A Future with Only Ten Universities
“In 50 years, he says, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one
Innoeduvation 