From the Boston Globe… With no grades or majors, Hampshire College, the Amherst institution with an alternative approach to higher education, seems an unlikely
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.
As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry
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Lists That Rank Colleges’ Value Are on the Rise
Rankings that privilege affordability and “return on investment” are becoming more common. They tend to look very different from more conventional lists. It becomes problematic
In ‘Flipped’ Classrooms, a Method for Mastery
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Developments in the 10,000 Dollar Degree Movement
From The New York Times 18 October Low-Cost B.A. Starting Slowly in Two States By TAMAR LEWIN Published: October 18, 2013 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With
Hi My Name is Dan and I’ll be Your Server
In a talk on October 14 blogger Audrey Watters described a dystopian future in which there were only 10 universities in the world. The narrative
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