Two articles on the topic of assessing and evaluating short, intensive courses. Most of the results appear positive in terms of learning outcomes, but there
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.
Three Articles on NACUBO Report on Endowments
The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) publishes an annual report on the state of college endowments. They pre-released some results recently,
Teaching Unprepared Students: The Importance of Increasing Relevance
“Whether students arrive in your classroom underprepared (that is, their high school educational experience did not prepare them for the rigors of college work) or
Social Media as Intellectual Distraction and Impediment to Sociality?
From the New York Times… Read More
Supporting Former Foster Youth Through College
from the New York Times… READ MORE See Also Mills public policy graduate Nicole Hudley wrote her 2009 thesis on educational outcomes for former foster
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